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Index Russia Main Page The Bolshevik Revolution Emergence of the USSR The Berlin Blockade and the Cold War Dissolution of the USSR Financial Crisis and Political Upheaval Putin's Rise to Power Attempts at Chechen Independence Fail A Shocking Hostage Situation, a Move Towards Climate Change, and Radiation Poison Crumbling Relations with the United States Putin Retains Power Conflict with Georgia and the Demise of the Western Friendship String of Suicide Bombs Sparks Fear of a Crackdown by Putin Putin to Return to the Presidency 2011 Parliamentary Elections Spark Massive Protests Russia Blocks U.N. Action in Syria Assassination Plot Uncovered Before Putin Wins the Presidential Election Protests Become Violent Ahead of Putin's Third Inauguration Massive Flood Kills More Than 100 People The Kremlin Takes Action against Political Activists Russia enters the World Trade Organization One Punk Band Member Released as Case Continues to Draw International Attention Russia Won't Renew Weapons Pact with United States Opposition Leader Says He Was Forced to Confess Meteorite Fragments Injure Hundreds

Opposition Leader Says He Was Forced to Confess

On October 19, 2012, Leonid Razvozzhayev, a Russian opposition leader, disappeared from Kiev, Ukraine. According to an interview with The New Times magazine, published on October 24, he was held for three days by men threatening to kill his children if he did not sign a confession. Razvozzhayev was in Kiev seeking advice on political asylum from the United Nations office there. He was held in a house and not allowed to eat or drink for three days. Once he signed the confession, his kidnappers turned him over to authorities in Moscow.

Russian authorities have charged Razvozzhayev and other opposition figures with plotting riots and seeking aid from Georgia in order to overthrow Putin's government. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russian federal investigators, said that Razvozzhayev turned himself in to the authorities in Moscow and, at the time, he did not speak of any "torture, abduction or any other unlawful actions." Markin said investigators would look into the claim of a forced signed confession.

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