BLACKMAIL?: Ivan Rybkin, who went missing for five days, claims he thought he was to meet Chechnya's fugitive president but ended up in a `disgusting' video
Russian presidential hopeful Ivan Rybkin plunged poll watchers into more confusion on Friday by saying he had been drugged and filmed in a "disgusting" video in Ukraine during the five days he was missing without explanation.
Rybkin's account to journalists in London was the third time he had tried to explain why he had gone off to Kiev without telling his wife or campaign aides, triggering a police manhunt, and what he did before he resurfaced five days later.
On his return to Moscow, Rybkin, a harsh critic of President Vladimir Putin, initially said he had been with friends, but later told an interviewer he had feared for his life and gone into hiding for part of the time in the Ukrainian capital.
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