McRibski
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.
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McRibski
At Nuremberg Hans Frank claimed that Hitler charged him with the task of finding out if Hitler's grandfather was really jewish. This is really not so strange, since pretty much everyone in Nazi Germany had someone in charge of finding out if they were jewish or not.
a pun. KGB is pronounced "KaGeBe" or "KeGeBe". The last sounds [eb] form the root of the ef-verb. "ebun" means "effer" in Russian, Thus, "kegebun" is a compound word [noun] with two roots [there are many such words in German and in Russian], meaning, literally, "KGB-effer". That's how we used to refer to them. Derivative adjective "kegebuchij" [with varying endings per gender, number and case] means "KGB-effing". For example, "our resident kegebun posters again pour forth their kegebuchij garbage".
Daniel Craig (Bond,James Bond) would make a great Putin. Putin has a fascinating life story to tell with his involvement with KGB.
OH OH Vlady is at again LOL!
Very interesting, thanks for the clarification.
You are welcome. It is a transliterated pun, but back in my days the kegebuns were getting it instantaneously [without transliteration], and should be getting it now, too.
Meanwhile, tell me how to pronounce the name "Gaidar". Please tell me it's not pronounced "GAY-DAR"...
I never tire of that picture! Too funny!
A shooting. A poisoning. A mystery illness. If we can get a rope & a candlestick we may have the Russian version of "Clue".
It's the Russian Flu. A lot of that going around lately.
Must be the "Russian flu".
Mr Gaidar, if that is your real name, as your physician, I must be perfectly honest: I'm afraid, it's they gai disease. Yes, still incurable.
You beat me.
Oh, easy. Just remember that these a's are pronounced like Latin a's, and not like the English ones. English "gay" is pronounced [gei]. in "Gaidar" that "gay" part has its "a" sounding like the the beginning of "our", but short and not stressed- I think the pronunciation synbol is [a:]. The second "a" in "gaidar" is the stressed, longer "a:"-like sound. And finally, the last consonant in "gaidar" is fully sounding "r". so yes, it is gai-dAr
synbol=symbol. adjacent keys typo.
Too much Guinness will do that to you.
"Pat Buchanan prbably believes Hitler was Jewish."
Rumor has it, he was.
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