A Siberian doctor who treated poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last year has reappeared after being reported missing while on a hunting trip, Russian news agencies cited the regional government as saying.

A search was launched in the forests of the Omsk region, about 2200km east of Moscow, after Dr Alexander Murakhovsky left a forest hunting base in an all-terrain vehicle on Friday.

Dr Murakhovsky exited the forest himself and made contact with residents of the village of Basly, RIA news agency quoted the Omsk regional government as saying.

He was in “normal condition” though was being examined at Bolsheukovsky District Hospital as a precaution, RIA cited the authorities as saying.