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Mystery illness hits former Russian PM
Financial Times ^ | November 28, 2006 | Arkady Ostrovsk

Posted on 11/28/2006 8:20:26 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s former prime minister and the architect of the country’s market reforms, last week suffered a sudden, unexplained and violent illness on a visit to Ireland, a day after Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB spy, died in London from an apparent radiation poisoning.

Mr Gaidar is now in a stable condition at an undisclosed Moscow hospital, undergoing tests. In a telephone interview with the FT, Mr Gaidar said the doctors had so far been unable to identify the cause of the violent vomiting and bleeding that he suffered during a conference in Ireland.

Anatoly Chubais, his former associate and the head of Russia’s electricity monopoly, said he suspected Mr Gaidar may have been poisoned. However, he strongly ruled out that either Russia’s security services or the Kremlin could have had any involvement. There is no indication of radiation being the cause of his illness.

Mr Gaidar is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s softer critics and his daughter is a leader of an opposition movement. Mr Gaidar, who heads an economic think-tank in Moscow, has close connections with the government and occasionally advises them on economic matters.

"I have suffered sudden problems with my health on November 24 which posed a threat to my life. This threat has not been realised. After a few hours the situation stabilised,” Mr Gaidar said.

Mr Chubais and Mr Gaidar said the doctors could not explain the symptoms he had suffered.

(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: ireland; litvinenko; poisonplots; polonium; putin; russia
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1 posted on 11/28/2006 8:20:27 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

Ruh-roh.


2 posted on 11/28/2006 8:23:56 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

There's a lot of that going around these days.


3 posted on 11/28/2006 8:25:08 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans

Especially amongst Russians.


4 posted on 11/28/2006 8:26:12 PM PST by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Lots of "illness" going on. Maybe it's the bird flu.

5 posted on 11/28/2006 8:26:23 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: West Coast Conservative

what to think. it's unimaginable that Putin would off two prominent opponents within a couple of weeks of each other. Interesting they've mentioned poisoning and that he's a "soft" critic of the Russian government.


6 posted on 11/28/2006 8:26:47 PM PST by GOP_Thug_Mom (libera nos a malo)
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To: West Coast Conservative

He looked into Putins eyes and saw something else.


7 posted on 11/28/2006 8:27:13 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Good. Pox on all the kegebuns and nomenklaturists, but I repeat myself. Our Polish colleagues could put it more figuratively, " may cholera take them", or something like that.
8 posted on 11/28/2006 8:27:43 PM PST by GSlob
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To: West Coast Conservative
I have suffered sudden problems with my health on November 24 which posed a threat to my life.

"I think I may have had too much Polonium 210 on my steak."

9 posted on 11/28/2006 8:28:08 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I hope it's not too contagious.


10 posted on 11/28/2006 8:28:17 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
One too many shots of Vodka perhaps? Or is it pronounced Woodka?
11 posted on 11/28/2006 8:28:38 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: lizol

ping


12 posted on 11/28/2006 8:28:47 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Something is sure building out of Russia.


13 posted on 11/28/2006 8:30:58 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: West Coast Conservative

Pat Buchanan said a Jew did this.


14 posted on 11/28/2006 8:31:00 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: West Coast Conservative

Reminds me of the story "And Then There Where None"


15 posted on 11/28/2006 8:31:12 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: LdSentinal

Actually, Gaidar is jewish so Pat would probably say he did it to himself.


16 posted on 11/28/2006 8:33:50 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom

well, Ivan the Terrible used to poison the courtiers who fell out of favor with him at his feasts [and the attendance was mandatory]. That was a sort of a mild reprimand; being fried alive in rancid oil or impalement on a stake was reserved for more serious offenses.


17 posted on 11/28/2006 8:33:51 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Pat Buchanan prbably believes Hitler was Jewish.


18 posted on 11/28/2006 8:35:11 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: GSlob
What are kegebuns, anyway? That's twice I've heard that word here in as many days.
19 posted on 11/28/2006 8:37:30 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom

Putin … you can take the person out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the person.

It would seem that there are as many unexplained deaths happening to Russian leaders in Russia today … similar to the unexplained deaths that happened in Russia during Russia’s Communist period.


20 posted on 11/28/2006 8:38:02 PM PST by doc1019
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