NEW POISONING OF ANOTHER RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FIGURE

MOSCOW--This is just breaking on the news wires: former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who served-under President Boris Yeltsin with Vladimir Putin, has been poisoned with an unnatural substance that has yet to be identified. Gaidar began-vomiting and collapsed at a political conference in Dublin yesterday. His condition is stable in a Russian hospital. Being part of the opposition in and outside of Russia is becoming a risk to one's health. Putin has some serious answering to do. It's peculiar, but has anyone pondered the fact that this would play-into-the-hands of anyone who wanted a war in Iran? Russia has been part of a crucial-bloc on the UN Security Council in vetoing any actions against the Muslim nation, and defaming Putin on the international stage in this way would spark extremely-damaging outrage and mistrust. Bets are still on Putin, however.

Yegor Gaidar:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061130/ap_on_re_eu/russia_gaidar

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june00/russia_1-19.html

http://www.case.com.pl/strona--ID-o_case_ludzie,osoba_id-57399,nlang-710.html

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Gaidar/

http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=1964

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/29/russia.illness.reut/index.html

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/11/B067044B-817F-4A1D-AC49-C5D165ABC6BF.html

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=82&sid=989460

A Peculiar Denial:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11629375

A Timeline of Fallen Foes of the Kremlin:

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/11/B067044B-817F-4A1D-AC49-C5D165ABC6BF.html