Gaidar doctors 'unable to diagnose illness'

Doctors have failed to diagnose former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar’s mysterious illness, saying they suspected poisoning, but were unable to detect the toxic substance that could be to blame, an aide said today.

Gaidar, a 50-year-old economist who served briefly as prime minister in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin and is a leader of a Russian liberal opposition party, began vomiting and fainted during a conference in Ireland on November 24, and was rushed into intensive care at a hospital.