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Russia's Gaidar ill in hospital with mystery ailment

By Guy Faulconbridge
2 hours, 43 minutes ago



Yegor Gaidar, architect of Russia's market reforms, was being treated in a Moscow hospital on Wednesday after coming close to death with a mystery ailment during a visit to Ireland, friends and family said.

Gaidar, 50, who unleashed economic shock therapy before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Soviet Union, fell unconscious with unexplained symptoms on November 24 during a visit to Dublin to present his new book -- Death of the Empire.

"He lost consciousness for three hours and was taken to intensive care for a long time where doctors were fearful for his life," Gaidar's daughter Maria, an opposition activist, told Reuters.

"He is in Moscow and doctors are trying to come up with a diagnosis but they can't find one. His condition is satisfactory and he is speaking but he looks very bad -- he looks pale and thin."

Maria Gaidar said that doctors were trying to diagnose "rather strange symptoms" including a nose bleed and loss of consciousness, but that she did not want to comment on a report in London's Financial Times that he may been poisoned.

Gaidar, who now heads the Institute for the Economy in Transition, fell ill a day after former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital from radiation poisoning.

Litvinenko, a critic of the Kremlin, left a letter blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death. The Kremlin denies any involvement.

RESTRAINED CRITIC

A tubby economist who became reform commissar and acting prime minister for former president Boris Yeltsin, Gaidar provoked awe and antipathy for freeing prices in 1992 and for launching the first wave of privatizations after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Anatoly Chubais, a very close former colleague who went on to become Yeltsin's chief-of-staff, told reporters that doctors thought Gaidar's illness may not be natural.

"Yegor Gaidar on 24 November was in the balance between life and death. Could this be simply some sort of natural illness? According to what the most professional doctors, who have first- hand knowledge of the situation, say: No," Chubais said.

Quietly spoken and more at home with his economics books than in Russia's turbulent politics, Gaidar has made restrained criticism of Putin's economic policies.

Chubais, target of an assassination attempt in 2005, made a link between Gaidar's illness and the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead last month in Moscow, and Litvinenko's death.

"For me there is no doubt that the deathly chain Politkovskaya-Litvinenko-Gaidar, which miraculously was not finished, would have been extremely attractive for the supporters of an unconstitutional, forceful change of power in Russia," said Chubais.

Nu n-a mancat ciuperci, a mancat rahat ca si tine :
"Gaidar, 50, who unleashed economic shock therapy before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Soviet Union"
Talhar jeltzinist, vanat pe drept de Putin. Bine le face.
...Am auzit c-ati castigat razboiul in Irak ... Bravooo!

La 2006-11-29 15:49:54, Mos Grigore a scris:

> Russia's Gaidar ill in hospital with mystery ailment
>
> By Guy Faulconbridge
> 2 hours, 43 minutes ago
>
>
>
> Yegor Gaidar, architect of Russia's market reforms, was being treated
> in a Moscow hospital on Wednesday after coming close to death with a
> mystery ailment during a visit to Ireland, friends and family said.
>
> Gaidar, 50, who unleashed economic shock therapy before the dust had
> settled on the ruins of the Soviet Union, fell unconscious with
> unexplained symptoms on November 24 during a visit to Dublin to
> present his new book -- Death of the Empire.
>
> "He lost consciousness for three hours and was taken to intensive care
> for a long time where doctors were fearful for his life," Gaidar's
> daughter Maria, an opposition activist, told Reuters.
>
> "He is in Moscow and doctors are trying to come up with a diagnosis
> but they can't find one. His condition is satisfactory and he is
> speaking but he looks very bad -- he looks pale and thin."
>
> Maria Gaidar said that doctors were trying to diagnose "rather strange
> symptoms" including a nose bleed and loss of consciousness, but that
> she did not want to comment on a report in London's Financial Times
> that he may been poisoned.
>
> Gaidar, who now heads the Institute for the Economy in Transition,
> fell ill a day after former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a
> London hospital from radiation poisoning.
>
> Litvinenko, a critic of the Kremlin, left a letter blaming Russian
> President Vladimir Putin for his death. The Kremlin denies any
> involvement.
>
> RESTRAINED CRITIC
>
> A tubby economist who became reform commissar and acting prime
> minister for former president Boris Yeltsin, Gaidar provoked awe and
> antipathy for freeing prices in 1992 and for launching the first wave
> of privatizations after the fall of the Soviet Union.
>
> Anatoly Chubais, a very close former colleague who went on to become
> Yeltsin's chief-of-staff, told reporters that doctors thought Gaidar's
> illness may not be natural.
>
> "Yegor Gaidar on 24 November was in the balance between life and
> death. Could this be simply some sort of natural illness? According to
> what the most professional doctors, who have first- hand knowledge of
> the situation, say: No," Chubais said.
>
> Quietly spoken and more at home with his economics books than in
> Russia's turbulent politics, Gaidar has made restrained criticism of
> Putin's economic policies.
>
> Chubais, target of an assassination attempt in 2005, made a link
> between Gaidar's illness and the murder of Russian journalist Anna
> Politkovskaya, who was shot dead last month in Moscow, and
> Litvinenko's death.
>
> "For me there is no doubt that the deathly chain
> Politkovskaya-Litvinenko-Gaidar, which miraculously was not finished,
> would have been extremely attractive for the supporters of an
> unconstitutional, forceful change of power in Russia," said Chubais.
>
>
>
>

Heeeeiii... badie, iar ai venit cu closetul dupa tine ? Daca-ti place atat de mult rahatul, de ce nu te-nfunzi la tine acasa, si nu-l mai turna si pe forum, zilnic, ca pute a mirlanie !
Grija Irakului te manaca pe tine, ia vezi-ti de ograda ta, ca-s destule strambe si pe acolo.

La 2006-11-29 19:01:55, MacLeod a scris:

> Nu n-a mancat ciuperci, a mancat rahat ca si tine :

> "Gaidar, 50, who unleashed economic shock therapy before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Soviet Union" Talhar jeltzinist, vanat pe drept de Putin.

Bine le face. ...Am auzit c-ati castigat razboiul in Irak ... Bravooo!
>
> La 2006-11-29 15:49:54, Mos Grigore a scris:

Russia's Gaidar ill in hospital with mystery ailment
By Guy Faulconbridge

Yegor Gaidar, architect of Russia's market reforms, was being treated in a Moscow hospital on Wednesday after coming close to death with a mystery ailment during a visit to Ireland, friends and family said.

La 2006-11-29 19:22:44, Oriana a scris:

> Heeeeiii... badie, iar ai venit cu closetul dupa tine ? Daca-ti place
> atat de mult rahatul, de ce nu te-nfunzi la tine acasa, si nu-l mai
> turna si pe forum, zilnic, ca pute a mirlanie !
> Grija Irakului te manaca pe tine, ia vezi-ti de ograda ta, ca-s
> destule strambe si pe acolo.
>



Ce-i Ana Pauker, esti invidioasa? Ai impresia ca te intrece cineva in grosolanii pe forumul asta? Poate mosul caruia ii iei apararea.

Tu mai ai si tupeu sa ma chemi pe mine Paukner, comunista cum esti tu si suedia ta bolsevica cu trecut nazist, ia carramba de aici, ca la grosolanii, Ilenutza arcu' di triumf , nu te-ntrece nimeni, si sunt foarte multi care o pot confirma.

La 2006-11-29 20:33:07, Katty a scris:

> La 2006-11-29 19:22:44, Oriana a scris:

>
> Ce-i Ana Pauker, esti invidioasa? Ai impresia ca te intrece cineva in
> grosolanii pe forumul asta? Poate mosul caruia ii iei apararea.
>