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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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To: West Coast Conservative

Its looking like the end of the Godfather....


41 posted on 11/28/2006 9:55:17 PM PST by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: doc1019
...similar to the unexplained deaths that happened in Russia during Russia's Communist period.

Also similar to the unexplained deaths that happened in Arkansas and other US locales during America's Clinton period!

42 posted on 11/28/2006 10:10:34 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: All

Looks like Putin went all out.. Looks like the UK investigation will point to him anyway..

Waiting for "he poisoned himself" news story from ITAR-TASS..


43 posted on 11/28/2006 10:13:37 PM PST by b2stealth
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To: West Coast Conservative
Given that man's physical conditions no wonder he has health problems: (center)

Actually all the man needs is to gorge less.

44 posted on 11/29/2006 12:02:40 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
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To: West Coast Conservative

He got a bad case of Communitis Returnis.


45 posted on 11/29/2006 1:45:47 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: West Coast Conservative
From Putin with toxin:

Another - sudden, unexplained and violent illness - a day after Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB spy, died in London from an apparent radiation poisoning.


46 posted on 11/29/2006 2:43:00 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free!)
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To: LdSentinal

"Pat Buchanan prbably believes Hitler was Jewish."

...one with an extreme inferiority complex.


47 posted on 11/29/2006 3:04:55 AM PST by quesney
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To: West Coast Conservative
Looks like someone read up on MK NAOMI and is going through the field excercises.
48 posted on 11/29/2006 6:00:34 AM PST by DBrow
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To: skr
Especially amongst Russians.

Who visit British Islands. Must be British food and weather!

49 posted on 11/29/2006 7:41:16 AM PST by A. Pole (Jean-Philippe Cotis: "What the world may be facing is a rebalancing of growth")
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To: LdSentinal
Pat Buchanan said a Jew did this.

A self-hating Jew?

50 posted on 11/29/2006 7:42:40 AM PST by A. Pole (Jean-Philippe Cotis: "What the world may be facing is a rebalancing of growth")
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To: Freelance Warrior

Professor Plum??


51 posted on 11/29/2006 7:45:54 AM PST by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom
I'll have to give this to Clinton--he was much more discreet in offing his adversaries.

Perhaps some discretion was offered by the Old Media's lack of interest in following up on the oddly coincidental deaths of James McDougal, Ron Brown, Vince Foster, Mary Mahoney, Ed Willey, and a few dozen other unfortunate peeps who (allegedly and according to some websites) had the "goods" on the Clintons.

Ooo, wouldn't this make a cool political commercial, say in October 2008?

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52 posted on 11/29/2006 8:03:23 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: sissyjane

Plum, to my mind must be tall. No, his most remarkable feature are extreme obesety and a pink smooth face. That's why many Russian call him a piglet.


53 posted on 11/29/2006 8:04:08 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
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To: West Coast Conservative

Another Kremli-Cide?!?


54 posted on 11/29/2006 8:04:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Tailgunner Joe

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

Gaidar is not jewish. You missed here Joe:).


55 posted on 11/29/2006 8:48:01 AM PST by RusIvan ("THINK!" the motto of IBM)
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To: Sue Perkick
A shooting. A poisoning. A mystery illness. If we can get a rope & a candlestick we may have the Russian version of "Clue"

I guess it's not your fault cereal and milk is all over my keyboard; how would you know I was eating breakfast??

56 posted on 11/29/2006 10:25:45 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: RusIvan
Nah, he is Jewish all right - he himself says so and both of his grandmothers are jewish.

http://www.sem40.ru/rest/interesting/10561/index.shtml?print=1
57 posted on 11/29/2006 11:12:28 AM PST by asd145
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To: asd145

Sem40 is just one site:). You listen them more:). They once told that academician Sakharov was jewish (maybe it is because he had jewish wife):) Other moment they enlisted even Andrei Mironov and Vladimir Visotskii to jews:). Let them enlist me because I have the aunt who is jewish:).


58 posted on 11/30/2006 1:58:17 AM PST by RusIvan ("THINK!" the motto of IBM)
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To: sayfer bullets

Those mcribs are disgusting. Billboard ad fooled me.


59 posted on 11/30/2006 2:03:17 AM PST by Pro-Bush (hater)
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