But on the
Pravda website, there is a different story from yesterday, but much along the same lines.
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Ivan Rybkin: show must go on02/12/2004 17:39
Candidate for President is inventing plausible explanation why he had disappeared for several days.
The interview Ivan Rybkin gave live to Echo Moskvi radio station turns his "Kiev adventures" in some sort of comedy. Ivan Petrovich used such colorful descriptions of the train guards and the people he encountered that it looked like he had visited not Kiev, but a carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Debates of the Presidential candidates started in Russia on February 12. Co-Chairman of Rodina (Motherland) Bloc Sergey Glaziev, Oleg Malyshkin from LDPR, independent candidate Irina Khakamada and Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party) participate in the debates, the other candidates - Sergey Mironov, Vladimir Putin and Ivan Rybkin refused from debating.
Rybkin is preoccupied with other matters - he has to invent plausible version of his disappearance urgently. Law-enforcers who spent plenty of energy searching for him need his explanation. In addition, Rybkin"s boss Boris Berezovsky is waiting for his explanation as well. If Berezovsky becomes angry at Rybkin, he can stop sponsoring the politician.
More at the link above
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The story is written by
Yegor Belous. The link to Belous is just a list of stories he has written, but does include an email address.