2006 Illness and Alleged Poisoning
On 28 November 2006, Yegor Gaidar was found unconscious in County Kildare, Ireland, where he had been presenting his new book Lasting Time: Russia in the World. He was taken to a Dublin hospital but doctors said there was no serious threat to his health. On 6 December 2006, Gaidar claimed in an op-ed published in both Russian-language and English-language publications that he was poisoned by adversaries of the Russian authorities. He repeated his claim on the BBC programme Hardtalk. There was later speculation that the cause of his sudden illness was possibly a ruptured stomach ulcer.
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