I would like to point out that Gaidar has gone to great lengths to play down this whole thing. If he was poisoned, he claims that it was only to hurt Russia's image in the world. And he isn't "a Kremlin critic" as most media report. He is a neo-classical economist and disagrees with Russia's current economic policies. Again, this episode is to create a media zoo. Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > On 12/11/06, Michael Givel <mgivel @earthlink.net=""> wrote: > >> 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. Which is nothing compared to what the Russian people suffered from Gaidar. Doug ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </mgivel></blockquote> <hr size=1>Everyone is raving about <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=45083/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta">the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.</a>