Ex Russian leader falls ill in Dublin

Former Russian Premier Yegor Gaidar was being treated in a Moscow hospital today several days after falling violently ill at a conference in Ireland, his daughter said.

Gaidar, who served briefly as prime minister in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, began vomiting and fainted during the conference in Dublin on Friday and was rushed into intensive care at a hospital, Maria Gaidar said in comments broadcast on Ekho Moskvy radio.