Re: What Lies Behind the Rash of Russian Poisonings?
On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Peter Lavelle wrote:
I would like to point out that Gaidar has gone to great lengths to
play down this whole thing. If he was poisoned, he claims that it
was only to hurt Russia’s image in the world. And he isn’t “a
Kremlin critic” as most media report. He is a neo-classical
economist and disagrees with Russia’s current economic policies.
His policies helped produce one of the greatest social collapses in
modern history. Current Russian economic policies, which have
admittedly gotten a lift from high oil prices, have reversed the
slide. Gaidar should stop, um, bellyaching. In a just world, he’d be
living on a WW II vet’s pension.
Doug