*Okay, poisoning pesky ex-spies and poisoning loudmouth journalists,
I can kinda get it about that activity, but poisoning *Yegor Gaidar*? I haven't heard that guy's name in ten years! Now we've got global poisoners on the front page of Google News dribbling radioactive polonium traces on
British airplanes... What's with the poison orgy? It's like something out of the days of Rasputin.
FORMER ACTING RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER HAS MYSTERIOUS AILMENT. Yegor
Gaidar, a former acting prime minister of Russia and the architect of economic reforms in the early 1990s, is being treated in a Moscow hospital after falling violently ill in Ireland, news.ru reported on
November 29. His daughter, Maria Gaidar, was quoted in the daily
"Kommersant" of November 29 as saying that he began vomiting and fainted during a conference in Dublin on November 24. She added that doctors have so far been unable to determine the causes of his illness, which she suggested could be the result of poisoning.
Anatoly Chubais, a longtime associate of Gaidar and the head of
Russia's national electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems (EES), said in Moscow on November 29 that he suspects a connection between
Gaidar's illness, Litvinenko's poisoning, and the October killing of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, Interfax reported. Chubais argued that unspecified people seeking what he called an
"unconstitutional and forceful change of power in Russia" could have been behind the three incidents. PM
