But the idea was given some credence by the strange incapacitation of Yegor Gaidar, a former Russian prime minister, who thinks he was himself poisoned in Ireland on the day that Litvinenko died.

• 但是这一想法由于俄罗斯前总理叶戈尔-盖达尔（YegorGaidar）奇怪地丧失行为能力而有了某种可信度，盖达尔认为自己是在利特维年科死亡当日在爱尔兰被人下了毒。