It keeps getting stranger...
Russian Candidate Found Alive, Aide Says
MOSCOW - The Russian presidential candidate, missing since last week, has been located in neighboring Ukraine and will return to Russia Tuesday night, a campaign staffer said.
Ivan Rybkin, a critic of President Vladimir Putin who has been supported by one of the president's most outspoken foes, self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, had been missing since late Thursday, after being dropped off outside his Moscow home, according to his wife and campaign staffers.
A campaign staffer who gave her name only as Maria confirmed a Russian media report that Rybkin had been found and was to return to Moscow on a flight Tuesday night. His wife, Albina, said she could not immediately confirm the report.
She and Rybkin staffers filed a missing-person report on the 57-year-old on Sunday, the day after his candidacy for the March 14 presidential election was approved by the Central Election Commission.