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	Ivan Rybkin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1994, Rybkin was elected speaker of the State Duma.
		In March 1998, Rybkin was appointed Deputy Prime Minister over CIS-affairs (CIS being the (An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991) Commonwealth of Independent States).
		In 2004, Rybkin was nominated for the Russian presidential elections.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/iv/ivan_rybkin.htm (308 words)

	Ivan Rybkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in the town of Semigorovka in the oblast of Voronezhskaya.
		After a career in the lower ranks of the Communist Party, Rybkin was elected as peoples' deputy to the congress of the RSFSR, the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (a nation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), in 1990.
		In February 2004, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances, a day after he accused the Putin administration of complicity in the 1999 bomb attacks in Moscow that led to a war in the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivan_Rybkin (299 words)

	The Moscow News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin talked of certain documents in his possession but said that it was "not yet time" to publish them.
		Rybkins disappearance comes at a time when a Moscow court is presenting evidence against six persons charged with the murder of his former associate in the Liberal Russia party, Deputy Sergei Yushenkov.
		Rybkin had called his campaign headquarters to say that he had had a thorough rest in Kiev and could not understand what all that hysteria in Moscow was about.
	www.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2004-5-2 (474 words)

	Russia: Behind the disappearance of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to Rybkin, “four people in fl clothes and with fl caps” entered the aircraft; they neither looked for anything nor questioned anybody, but “did their best to spread fear and alarm.” Who they were, and how he was able to take off, he did not explain.
		The Byzantine character of the Rybkin episode clearly reveals the demonstrative and arrogant contempt in which the ruling elite holds the mass of the population.
		The Rybkin episode is clear proof that the Russian people do not have their own candidate in these elections, and that they are being robbed of any real possibility of taking control of their own fate.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/feb2004/rybk-f24.shtml (2429 words)

	Russia: Ivan Rybkin Discusses Prospects For Peace In Chechnya
		Rybkin accused President Vladimir Putin and senior security officials of blocking paths to peace, as well as misrepresenting armed resistance in Chechnya as an aspect of global terrorism.
		Rybkin: I suspect the view exists that all aspects of the problem of trying to find a solution to the conflict should be handed over to the Chechens themselves.
		Rybkin: In my view, the party Yabloko is the most consistent in calling in its public statements for a peaceful solution to the situation in and connected with Chechnya; then the majority of the Union of Rightist Forces -- not all, unfortunately; and then our human rights organizations.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/russia/2005/russia-050830-rferl01.htm (2683 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Presidential candidate still missing
		Some suggested that the disappearance of Ivan Rybkin, whose campaign is financed by Boris Berezovsky, the controversial businessman and President Vladimir Putin's political foe, was staged as a publicity stunt.
		Rybkin went missing after he left his apartment in Moscow on Thursday evening and news of the 57-year-old's disappearance did not become public until the weekend.
		Rybkin has an approval rate of about one percent of voters, according to recent opinion polls, and has been a bit player in Russian politics since losing his post as speaker of the State Duma lower house of parliament in 1996.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/301476.htm (741 words)

	Russian claims he was drugged, kidnapped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin said at a news conference Friday that he had been lured to Ukraine's capital, Kiev, on the pretense of meeting with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen separatist leader who is one of Russia's most wanted men.
		Rybkin, who served as a security adviser to former President Boris Yeltsin, was involved in the peace talks that ended the first Chechen war in 1996 and has remained an advocate of talks to end the second war, which began in 1999.
		Rybkin suggested that his kidnapping was an effort to discredit liberal challengers to President Vladimir Putin before the presidential election on March 14.
	newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /archives/2004-02-15-11-09-51/web/NBproxy.cgi?sentence=4718 (389 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Russian presidential candidate returns
		Rybkin, who is regarded as having little chance of beating President Vladimir Putin in the March 14 election, vanished after making unprecedented charges against Putin and his alleged secret business interests — a subject that has been taboo in the tightly state-controlled Russian media.
		Rybkin topped it all off by accusing Putin of being "the biggest oligarch in Russia" and charging in The Wall Street Journal that "the very right to a secure and independent life has been consistently taken away by the state" under Putin's rule.
		Rybkin was officially registered on Saturday afternoon as one of the seven candidates in the presidential vote next month.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/301800.htm (683 words)

	Filesharingtalk.com Archive - Russian Presidential Hopeful Rybkin Says He Was Dr
		Rybkin, who said the incident involved a murky attempt involving a video tape to "compromise" him, also announced he would not withdraw from the March 14 Russian elections and told a London press conference he would conduct his campaign from Western Europe.
		Rybkin said that he had gone to Ukraine on the understanding that he would be meeting Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov for peace negotiations.
		Rybkin said he had been unconscious for four days and regained consciousness on February 10, when he was told to telephone family or friends in Moscow to say he had taken a short break in Kiev.
	filesharingtalk.com /vb3/history/topic/60931-1.html (573 words)

	Article - Rybkin in Ukraine, says ready for election - News From Russia
		Russian presidential hopeful Ivan Rybkin, who said he had been drugged and held against his will in Ukraine last month, told reporters in Kiev on Thursday he was ready to return to Moscow to challenge President Vladimir Putin.
		Rybkin's mysterious disappearance just a month before the March 14 presidential polls briefly shook Russia's political world but soon turned into a farce — and is about to be staged as a musical by a vanguard Moscow theatre.
		Rybkin had previously said he would stay away from Russia until after the election in which he, like five other challengers, is unlikely to score solidly against President Vladimir Putin, whose popularity rating is nearly 80 percent.
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_219145.php (525 words)

	CNN.com - Rybkin mystery: Questions remain - Feb. 11, 2004
		Press commentators said Rybkin, a fierce critic of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, was bound for political oblivion unless he could show he had been the victim of a "dirty tricks" set-up to discredit him and his financial backer, exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
		Rybkin, a former speaker of parliament, appeared on Tuesday in neighboring Ukraine to the bafflement of aides and family in Russia who had triggered a police hunt by reporting him missing.
		"Ivan Rybkin's behavior at the airport indicates he will soon have to give supporters and the public an intelligible version of events in which he does not appear a 'clown' but a victim of political machinations," said the daily Kommersant.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/02/11/russia.rybkin.feature.reut/index.html (695 words)

	CNN.com - Rybkin quits presidential race - Mar. 5, 2004
		Rybkin was speaking at a news conference just a little over a week ahead of the March 14 election, which Putin is widely expected to win easily.
		Rybkin, the head of the Liberal Russia party, had poll ratings of barely 1 percent compared to Putin's ratings average of 80 percent.
		Rybkin, quoted by Interfax news agency, said he had been "hanging out" with his friends, had turned his mobile phone off and did not watch television.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/05/russia.rybkin/index.html (508 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		The strange tale of Ivan Rybkin grew even murkier when the errant Russian would-be president said he had felt under threat from special service agents during his five-day mystery absence in Ukraine.
		Rybkin, 57, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, returned to Moscow on Tuesday night, looking haggard and disoriented, ending a police manhunt sparked by his sudden disappearance from his home on February 5.
		Rybkin has been strident in his criticism of Putin, accusing him of crushing independent media and mismanaging the drive against Chechen separatists - an issue in which he has expertise as a former negotiator.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,254860-1-9,00.html (606 words)

	Ivan Rybkin: show must go on - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Rybkin is preoccupied with other matters - he has to invent plausible version of his disappearance urgently.
		Rybkin says he went to Kiev by train and was passing all customs and border formalities and therefore was surprised to learn that law-enforcers are not aware of his being in Kiev and are searching for him.
	english.pravda.ru /main/18/88/351/12045_Rybkin.html (753 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		Rybkin, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin whom he will challenge in next month's election, told Russian media he was surprised at the fuss caused by his failure to contact family and aides.
		Rybkin, who disappeared last Thursday, told Interfax news agency that he was entitled to go on a short break.
		Rybkin was due to fly back to Moscow later in the evening and was certain to face hordes of reporters as well as his own baffled campaign workers.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,254541-1-9,00.html (348 words)

	CBC News:Putin presidential rival missing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ivan Rybkin is a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin, who is likely to win the March 14 vote with little difficulty.
		Rybkin is a 57-year-old former speaker of the lower house of parliament who has become one of President Putin's most vocal critics.
		Rybkin only has an approval rating of of one per cent and has been on the sidelines of Russian politics since losing his post as parliament speaker in 1996.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/02/08/ripkin040208 (311 words)

	Russian candidate reported missing - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin, a former speaker of the Russian parliament and top security aide to former President Boris Yeltsin, is among a handful of serious candidates running for president in the March 14 elections, which Mr.
		Rybkin said during the Jan. 21 interview that he had made a public pledge in 2002 to run for president if no other leading reformer entered the race.
		Rybkin has also come to the defense of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Putin critic now jailed on fraud charges that many say are politically motivated.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040209-122525-6814r.htm (590 words)

	Putin antagonist reported missing / Presidential candidate has not been seen since Thursday night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ivan Rybkin, a former parliament speaker and national security adviser under Boris Yeltsin, has not been seen or heard from since Thursday evening, raising fears among his family and campaign aides that something dire has happened to him.
		Rybkin's whereabouts have added a bizarre drama to a torpid presidential campaign that is universally expected to end with Putin's re-election on March 14.
		Rybkin, 57, has been one of the most unabashed critics of Putin and his policies, but like Putin's five other challengers he has struggled to build political support and get his message heard, especially on state television.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/09/MNGL34S15K1.DTL (462 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Rybkin drops challenge to Putin
		Ivan Rybkin announced he was no longer challenging President Vladimir Putin in the 14 March elections.
		Mr Rybkin initially said he went to Kiev of his own accord, but then claimed he was lured there under false pretences, drugged and kidnapped.
		Mr Rybkin, however, was not seen as a serious contender in the Russian poll, which Mr Putin is expected to win by a landslide.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3536215.stm (278 words)

	Hunt on for missing Russian presidential candidate - Feb. 11, 2004
		Rybkin vanished on February 5, shortly after making unprecedented charges against Putin and his alleged secret business interests - a subject that has been taboo in the tightly state-controlled Russian media.
		The initial media and analysts' reaction in Moscow was that Rybkin's disappearance was an elaborate public relations ploy designed to bring attention to a candidate who was struggling with a one-percent voter approval rating.
		Some suggested that Rybkin and his sponsor Berezovsky - who is living in exile after having a dramatic fallout with Putin in 2000 and has since been financing a series of political movements opposed to the Russian leader - were simply trying to embarrass the Kremlin chief.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/feb/11/wnw_4-1.htm (526 words)

	Runaway Presidential Candidate Back in Moscow - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin quoted by Interfax news agency told the press in the airport that he “came home to go on working.” He declined to give any further details.
		Rybkin told in Kyiv that he had to come to Moscow to consult this case with Russian Proseutor General’s office.
		Rybkin previously told that he had gone to Kyiv in the beginning of February to talk with Chechen emissaries.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/03/04/rybkin.shtml (435 words)

	Rybkin Missing for 3 Days, Police Start Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin was officially registered as a presidential candidate Friday, but failed to show up at the Central Elections Commission to receive his official candidate's identity card.
		Rybkin is also an advocate of negotiations with Chechen separatists over the conflict in the republic.
		Among the companies Rybkin alleged were controlled by businessmen close to Putin were television companies NTV and Channel One, and oil major Surgutneftegaz.
	dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/02/09/011.html (671 words)

	Russian candidate claims kidnapping - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin said he intended to actively pursue his presidential campaign, but that he would do so from London because of fear for his safety.
		Rybkin initially said he had simply been taking a break in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, when he surfaced there earlier this week after his family and campaign staff had reported him missing.
		Rybkin has promised an end to the Chechen hostilities within six months and a return of the breakaway state to the Russian Federation if he is elected to replace President Vladimir Putin at the polls on March 14.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040213-093425-9062r.htm (365 words)

	USATODAY.com - Putin critic withdraws from Russian presidential race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MOSCOW (AP) — Russian politician Ivan Rybkin, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin who mysteriously disappeared last month, said Friday he is withdrawing from the presidential race because it was a "farce," the Interfax news agency reported.
		On Friday, Rybkin again suggested he was the victim of some kind of politically motivated persecution in connection with his candidacy.
		Rybkin was running in the election with the backing of self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a bitter foe of Putin.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-05-russia-election_x.htm (303 words)

	The Case of the Missing Candidate - Why was Ivan Rybkin in Kiev? By Scott MacMillan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rybkin said he'd simply needed a break from the campaign, so he turned off his mobile phone and visited some friends in the Ukrainian capital.
		One rival candidate called the explanation "inarticulate" and said Rybkin's antics were "a circus clown show" unsuitable for national politics.
		Rybkin was in London Thursday, consulting with Berezovsky, his chief financier.
	slate.msn.com /id/2095446 (769 words)

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