Yegor Gaidar May Have Been Poisoned

Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s former prime minister and the architect of the country’s market reforms suffered a sudden, unexplained and violent illness on a visit to Ireland, a day after Alexander Litvinenko died. Anatoly Chubais, his former associate and the head of Russia’s electricity monopoly, said he suspected Yegor Gaidar may have been poisoned.

However, he strongly ruled out that either Russia’s security services or the Kremlin could have had any involvement.

Yegor Gaidar is now in a stable condition at an undisclosed Moscow hospital, undergoing tests.

In a telephone interview with the Financial Times, 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.

There is no indication of radiation being the cause of his illness.

Yegor Gaidar is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s softer critics and his daughter is a leader of an opposition movement.

Yegor Gaidar, who heads an economic think-tank in Moscow, has close connections with the government and occasionally advises them on economic matters.

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