I had a nervous breakdown.” Kuznetsova, a Green Party candidate for the State Duma, on her disappearance

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Green Party State Duma candidate Yulia Kuznetsova said she had returned home “I returned home and my husband and I are both fine. I was also able to vote at my polling station. Thank you all for your support,” said a message published on Kuznetsova’s Telegram channel.…

“I had a nervous breakdown.” Kuznetsova, a Green Party candidate for the State Duma, on her disappearance

Asked to comment on her disappearance, Kuznetsova told Meduza the following:

I can only say that I had a nervous breakdown and my husband took me away to rest.

✹ Kuznetsova disappeared on September 17 after meeting with voters. She stopped responding to her supporters. They filed a report with the police about her disappearance. Soon afterward, the police advised them to stop the search, saying that Kuznetsova and her husband had been found. However, their whereabouts remained unknown.

✹ On September 18, Kuznetsova posted a video saying that she and her husband were “all right,” and that the day before she had had “a rather difficult conversation.” She did not specify with whom she had spoken or what it was about. Her associates believed that Kuznetsova recorded the video under pressure.

✹ On September 20, a post appeared on Kuznetsova’s Telegram channel saying that she had returned home and that she was “fine.” Kuznetsova did not explain what had happened to her. Her associates declined to comment “so as not to harm anyone.”

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