One of the women is Natalia Arno, director of the Free Russia Foundation, and the other woman is a journalist
German police are investigating the possible poisoning of two Russian exiles who attended a conference in Berlin at the end of April, organised by the Russian Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Berlin police told Reuters a file had been opened after the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, citing the Russian investigative media group Agentstvo, said two women reported symptoms that suggested possible poisoning.