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In February 2004, he disappeared for 4 days under mysterious circumstances.

A day after his return 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.

Five days later, Rybkin appeared in Kiev.

He stated later that he had been kidnapped and drugged by Russian FSB agents He claims to have been lured to Ukraine under the pretense of meeting the former Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov.

However upon arrival he says he was offered refreshments in the apartment, at which point he became " very drowsy.

" He says he was unconscious for four days, waking on 10 February.

Upon waking he was shown a videotape in which he was performing " revolting acts " conducted by " horrible perverts ".

He was told that the tape would be made public if he continued with his presidential campaign ..

According to Alexander Litvinenko, the FSB agents apparently treated Rybkin with their standard truth drug.