Talk:Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

This article assumes, incorrectly, that Yegor Gaidar was poisoned in the course of his visit to Ireland. There is absolutely no evidence of poisoning in this case. Yegor Gaidar was taken ill at Maynooth College near Dublin on the day of Litvinenko's death. He began to bleed from the nose and appeared to be unconscious for a short time. A member of the Russian group attending the Maynooth conference noted that Gaidar had begun to feel ill during a stop-over at Ferihegy Airport in Budapest on his way to Ireland. Gaidar suffers from hypertension and diabetes and doctors who examined him at the scene said his condition was consistent with these ailments. Gaidar was taken to the James Connolly Memorial Hospital at Blanchardstown near Dublin where his condition was regarded not to be life-threatening.

An Garda Siochana, the Irish national police force, conducted an investigation into the event. No traces of polonium or any other poisonous or toxic substance were found at any place in which Gaidar was present. The investigation into the Maynooth event was not and is not part of an "ongoing investigation in the UK and in Ireland" since the event had absolutely no connection with the UK and the investigation in the Republic of Ireland has been completed. Yegor Timurevich Gaidar was released from hospital the following morning and spent the day at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Dublin where, according to Embassy sources, he was well enough to consume a considerable amount of vodka.

On his return to Russia Gaidar checked himself into a clinic in which the doctors stated that it would be contrary to their medical ethics to declare him a poisoning victim. Gaidar believed he was poisoned but the reason he gave for this was not entirely logical. In short he has stated that since the Russian doctors could not find a reason for his illness it must, therefore, have been due to poisoning. - Seamusfmartin (talk) 11:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

@Seamusfmartin I know nothing of that case, but the above opinion is highly suspect as one of great many posts worldwide by Putin's puppets at the Russian Internet Research Agency and other related arms of Putin's regime.

With Putin having been proven beyond all doubt as the maniacal murderer of many hundreds of thousands of people so far, in operations ranging from the small to the immense, and killing over 1000 young men every day in his genocidal war on Ukraine, this kind of propaganda denying his responsibility for a murder with polonium from Russia is offensive. If it involves polonium that means Putin orderred it to be done. 2604:3D09:8878:4500:D5F0:FAA:CA06:B2EC (talk) 01:13, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

I was present when Gaidar became ill in Maynooth. I therefore know quite a lot about it and agree with your statement that you know nothing. I knew Gaidar. I was aware of his severe diabetes and I saw him become ill at the conference at which I was one of the speakers. After he was taken to hospital I spoke to those who had accompanied him from Moscow. I was told that the same symptoms had occurred at Ferihegy Airport in Budapest on his way to Ireland. If he was poisoned it certainly was not in this country. Seamusfmartin (talk) 12:57, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

These discuss the Yasser Arafat polonium murder link claim:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/15/yasser-arafat-poisoned-polonium-litvinenko_n_4099837.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/yasser-arafat-poisoned-polonium-also-2372116

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Al-Jazeera-Others-Spread-by-William-Dunkerley-120811-171.html

http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp%253Fid%253D344808 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Switchcraft (talk • contribs) 13:13, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

@Switchcraft Do you really expect that such sloppy journalism by such dubious sources could be used in a Wikipedia article?

It is very obvious that Putin has paid his puppets to flood the pages that discuss his megamaniacal and murderous tendencies with denials, but nobody is fooled by any of the propaganda posted by his puppets. 2604:3D09:8878:4500:D5F0:FAA:CA06:B2EC (talk) 01:26, 15 June 2025 (UTC)