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Gaidar Blames Poisoning on Enemies of Russia
Russia’s prime minister in time of Boris Yeltsin’s ruling, Egor Gaidar wrote an article for The Financial Times to give his own explanation of poisoning.
Egor Gaidar felt unwell at an Irish university conference November 24 and was taken to a hospital in Dublin with signs of serious poisoning. He was transferred to a Moscow hospital in the near term. Gaidar checked out December 4 after the medical examination, which failed to name the definite toxic substance.
But Gaidar has no doubts that it was an attempt to poison him. As to the masterminds of the crime, the Kremlin wasn’t behind it, Gaidar concluded. Gaidar said he rejected the idea of the Kremlin’s involvement almost immediately. After the death of Alexander Litvinenko in London November 23, another violent death of a famous Russian that happened on the next day would be the last thing wanted by Moscow.
If it had happened in Moscow with shooting or explosion, I would have thought about some radical nationalists, Gaidar said. “But Dublin? Poisoning? Not their style, evidently,” he wrote, supposing that the enemies of Russian authorities could be behind it, those interested in further deterioration of relations between Russia and the West.
www.kommersant.com
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Photo: Alexey Myakishev
