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Candidate for Russian Presidency claims kidnapping, drugging, and worse
Ivan Rybkin, whose disappearance I blogged earlier in the week, has said he was kidnapped and drugged by armed Russians. He alleged that on waking up, he was shown a 'perverted' video of other people and his unconscious body.

He's in London right now and says he will stay there until after polling closes, making his free-airtime candidacy broadcasts to Russian TV from the UK.

Hardly surprising, really, if what he says is true! Pravda produces a skewed report. And that's hardly surprising, either.