Russian pro-peace parliamentary candidate Yulia Kuznetsova resurfaces after going missing, saying a ‘difficult conversation’ left her needing psychological and medical help
Yulia Kuznetsova, a State Duma candidate from the Greens party who disappeared a day earlier after a meeting with voters, has posted a video.
In a video message posted to her Telegram channel, Kuznetsova says:
My husband and I are both fine. Yesterday, there was a pretty difficult conversation, after which my husband had to give me psychological support and medical care. I’m all right now, and I’ll be home soon. Thank you so much to everyone who was worried about me.
Kuznetsova was running in Moscow’s Babushkinsky single-member district as the Greens party’s candidate under the slogan “For life, peace, and freedom.” Navalny’s team had recommended voting for her through its Smart Voting project.
On the evening of September 17, Kuznetsova could no longer be reached after a meeting with voters in Sokolniki. An associate told Mediazona that he filed a missing-person report for Kuznetsova and her husband, and that on September 18 a police officer called him and asked him to come in, saying the couple had been found. The officer showed him a photograph but could not say where Kuznetsova and her husband were. Police then suggested that Kuznetsova’s associate call off the search.
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