From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/29/2006 6:18 AM Russia's Gaidar ill in hospital with mystery ailment Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:05 AM ET
By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yegor Gaidar, architect of Russia's market reforms, was being treated in a Moscow hospital on Wednesday after coming close to death with a mystery ailment during a visit to Ireland, friends and family said.
Gaidar, 50, who unleashed economic shock therapy before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Soviet Union, fell unconscious with unexplained symptoms on November 24 during a visit to Dublin to present his new book -- Death of the Empire.
"He lost consciousness for three hours and was taken to intensive care for a long time where doctors were fearful for his life," Gaidar's daughter Maria, an opposition activist, told Reuters.
"He is in Moscow and doctors are trying to come up with a diagnosis but they can't find one. His condition is satisfactory and he is speaking but he looks very bad -- he looks pale and thin."
Maria Gaidar said that doctors were trying to diagnose "rather strange symptoms" including a nose bleed and loss of consciousness, but that she did not want to comment on a report in London's Financial Times that he may been poisoned.
Gaidar, who now heads the Institute for the Economy in Transition, fell ill a day after former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital from radiation poisoning.
Litvinenko, a critic of the Kremlin, left a letter blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death. The Kremlin denies any involvement.
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