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kl 17 hævdede BBC at han nu også er blevet forgivet. Jeg er sgu glad for at
jeg ikke har været til julefrokost med Arne eller Hans ligesindede.

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

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.

Maria Gaidar said she expected doctors to announce their diagnosis of his
mystery illness on Friday.

"His condition is satisfactory and he is speaking, but he looks very bad -
he looks pale and thin," she told Reuters news agency.

Anatoly Chubais, who oversaw Boris Yeltsin's privatisation programme and now
heads Russia's electricity monopoly Unified Energy Systems, saw his illness
as suspicious.

He linked the case to Mr Litvinenko's death and last month's murder of
investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya - both of whom were fierce critics
of President Putin.

"The theory of attempted poisoning, attempted murder should undoubtedly be
considered seriously," Mr Chubais told state-run Rossiya television.

"A chain of deaths of... Politkovskaya, Litvinenko and Gaidar would
perfectly correspond to the interests and vision of those people who are
openly talking about a forceful, unconstitutional change of power in Russia
as a possible option."