> Posted Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006 Russians learned Thursday that former
> prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the mastermind of Russia's early 1990s
> "shock therapy" economic reform, was poisoned last Friday in Dublin.
> Irish doctors managed to save Gaidar from what he now calls "a threat
> to my life."
According to the Irish media, those doctors concluded he was probably suffering from gastro-enteritis.