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Gaidar poisoned in Ireland?

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    LostinBlanch
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    On Newstalk this morning they said that Gaidar was diabetic (I'm not usre if he's type 1 or 2), so that could be another explanation for his illness.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1961080,00.html

    It seems that the poison claims are the result of Russian Media making up for (relatively) ignoring Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning.

    http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1732600&issue_id=14944
    Last night Russian websites were making connections with the death in London of Alexander Litvinenko.

    They pointed out that a man who had once acted as the former prime minister's bodyguard was amongst the last people to meet Litvinenko.
    A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday the Irish Ambassador to Russia had contacted Mr Gaider since his return home and he had been assured that there was nothing untoward about his illness.


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    flogen
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    It sounds like a pretty violent reaction to diabetes (although I'm only mildy familiar with the disease).

    Certainly an unusual time for it to happen, any Russian that catches a sniffle will be the source of huge media attention, but the reports of the illness sound like something more than food poisoning or other more "normal" ailments.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1130/poison.html
    The family of former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar - who collapsed during a visit to Ireland last Friday - believe he was poisoned.

    Mr Gaidar, who had been treated in a Dublin hospital after becoming ill during a conference in NUI Maynooth, is now being treated for a mystery illness in a Moscow hospital.

    The Kremlin has said President Vladimir Putin telephoned Mr Gaidar at the hospital in Moscow yesterday and wished him a speedy recovery.

    Russian doctors said they have identified no natural cause for an ailment afflicting Mr Gaidar, according to his spokesperson.


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    mike65
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    The death of Litvinenko is worth a novel on its own, now 3 planes all of which flew to/from Moscow have been identified as having the isotope on board (33,000 pasengers on those planes over the period in question).

    The daughter of Gaidar reckons he's been poisoned having spoked to her father.

    Mike.


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    MrJoeSoap
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    Both RTE and tonights Evening Herald have referred to Maynooth as being "in Dublin". Quality journalism from our very own.


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    mike65
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    They are just cribbing Sky News.

    Mike.


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    MrJoeSoap
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    Nah, I was watching Sky News for two hours and they got it right!


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    flogen
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    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    Both RTE and tonights Evening Herald have referred to Maynooth as being "in Dublin". Quality journalism from our very own.

    Was it RTE Radio or TV that said Maynooth was in Dublin, because the only rte.ie stories I can find don't make the same mistake.

    Question Time on BBC 1 tonight did though, but it's one thing for a foreign station to make the mistake and another for our national broadcaster to :D


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