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Egor Gaidar's Political Diagnosis
The official diagnosis for Egor Gaidar, who was hospitalized at the end of last week in Ireland and is now in a clinic in Moscow, will be made on Friday. But Gaidar's illness is already the topic of political discussions. Friends and associates of the former acting prime minister say that he was poisoned. RAO UES of Russia head Anatoly Chubais is sure that the murders of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko and the occurrence with Chubais are linked. The Irish Foreign Ministry sees no cause to consider the illness “connected with suspicious circumstances,” however.
Gaidar's daughter Maria told Kommersant yesterday evening after visiting her father that the doctors have made a diagnosis of her father. “The final diagnosis will be made public on Friday,” she said. “The doctors need that time to rule out all divergences from the main theory – poisoning with a substance unknown to civil medicine. The doctors are inclined to think that all the symptoms – weakness, sleepiness, loss of consciousness, low brain activity, bleeding in the throat, immobility with partial paralysis – are evidence of poisoning.”
One of the closest friends and political advisors to Gaidar is RAO UES of Russia head Anatoly Chubais, who also has little doubt that Gaidar was poisoned. “Egor Gaidar was on the brink of death on November 24. Could that be just some natural disease? Judging by what the most professional doctors are saying, no,” Chubais said. A source close to Chubais said that he visited Gaidar in the hospital, “talked with him and his doctor for a long time and formed his own opinion – that poisoning was the most likely explanation.” Leonid Gozman member of the management board of RAO and deputy chairman of the Union of Right Forces also finds the poisoning theory credible. “Until the suspicion of ill intentions is removed, the poisoning theory has to be kept in mind,” he said.
Chubais also tied the occurrence with Gaidar to two well-publicized murders. He is convinced that “the death construct of Politkovskaya-Litvinenko-Gaidar, who has been averted only by a miracle, would be extremely attractive to supporters of an unconstitutional forcible coup d'etat in Russia,” Chubais said.
Gozman commented on Chubais's statement that “We know what the three events led to. In the West, it was a terrible blow to the image Russia and the president of Russia. That is advantageous to people who want to isolate Russia from the outside world, from the West. People who want to return to the Cold War and local hot wars and to cause disorder during that isolation. Some of those people live in our country.”
Those close to Gaidar are refusing to say what hospital he is in. They say they fear for his life. “We cannot reveal the place of his hospitalization so keep that trump out of the hands of his and our enemies who, God forbid, might take advantage of the situation to repeat their attempt,” one said.
Doctors at the James Connolly Memorial Hospital in Ireland, where Gaidar was hospitalized on November 24, declined to make an exact diagnosis. “That is confidential information,” the hospital's press secretary said. However, Andrey Nedosekin, an advisor to the Russian embassy in Ireland told Kommersant that the Irish doctors “did not mention poisoning” when he spoke to them. “Hypertonic crisis was suggested, although its cause was not specified… At the time he was released from the hospital, the patient's life was not in danger,” Nedosekin added, citing Gaidar's Irish doctors.
The Irish Foreign Ministry also doubts the poisoning theory. “We have no cause to suggest that his illness is connected with any suspicious circumstances,” a member of that office's press service said yesterday. The Irish Foreign Ministry also stated that Irish Ambassador in Moscow Justin Harman “because of the high press interest in the situation, spoke with Gaidar to find out how he was feeling and Mr. Gaidar did not express any suspicions or concern.”
Yulia Taratuta
All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 30, 2006
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