MSNBC breaking - another Russian poisoned

[Holly_Hobby]

Per Nora O'Donnell, the wire services are reporting that a former Russian P.M. has been poisoned. Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar was now just mentioned.

Edit - here's the AP story link -

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_GAIDAR_ILL?SITE=KXLAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Clark2008]

1. Dead or sick?

[madokie]

2. I wouldn't put much chance on his surviving

if he's been had he's had

[Holly_Hobby]

3. She didn't say dead or alive, just poisoned n/t

[Avalux]

4. Poisoned with what? And not a spy, but a former PM?

Interesting.

[Holly_Hobby]

9. Link now at my OP n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Oh no.

Is he/she still alive? This is scary some scary shit. I just read an article about this and they have discovered 12 radioactive sites in Russia (including the 2 airplanes).:scared:

What the hell is going on? I understand the spy/Putin exposure connection, but what about this PM? I wonder what his/her story is?

[PCIntern]

6. Saw that...

Ruh-Roh.

I rmember when I was working in a photo lab and w used Polonium brushes to clean the negs prior to printing in the old days.

They used to warn us about them incessantly - and those were not the days of workplace environmentalism.

this is a bad sign - people can be poisoned wholesale and we'll never know until it's too late.

[acmavm]

7. So is Putin going to blame the billionaire for this one too? I have

to go find that story to see what that guys name is again.

Oh hell, I'm too lazy. Anybody have the link to that story????

[Holly_Hobby]

8. I edited my OP with link n/t

[Perky]

10. I smell a movie deal in the works

This stuff is right out of a Tom Clancy novel. God Bless the PM hoe he makes it but this is fascinating

[Holly_Hobby]

11. I read somewhere yesterday

that the Russians have been poisoning their enemies for decades.

[eliphaslevi]

12. Conspiracies are for tinfoilers

Government black ops and conspiracies are just fantasy so it can't be true. Maybe, he got contaminated by accident. :sarcasm:

[Holly_Hobby]

13. More per MSNBC

Became ill in Dublin a few days ago, he's the head of opposition party in Russia. Don't know for sure if poison or what poison.

[Holly_Hobby]

14. BBC:

Russian ex-PM has mystery illness - Mr Gaidar launched Russia's economic "shock therapy"

Former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar is being treated in a Moscow hospital after falling violently ill on a trip to Ireland on 24 November.
Speculation is rife that he may have been poisoned. He fell ill a day after former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoning in London.

Mr Gaidar's daughter Maria said "doctors incline towards the view that his symptoms... indicate poisoning". Mr Gaidar was rushed to intensive care in Dublin, then flown to Moscow. Mr Gaidar, 50, suffered from a nose bleed and vomiting before fainting in Dublin last Friday, during a visit to promote his book The Death of Empire: Lessons for Contemporary Russia. His daughter was quoted as saying he had eaten "a simple breakfast of fruit salad and a cup of tea".

Economic role

He has criticised President Vladimir Putin's economic policies, but is not regarded as a prominent political opponent of the Russian leader. His programme of economic "shock therapy" under Mr Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin angered many Russians who saw their savings devalued. The programme lifted price controls and launched large-scale privatisations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6159343.stm