Leader of the Russian Bloc party Gennady Basov, a Sevastopol City Council deputy, was abducted by nine unidentified persons on Saturday morning.
The police had received a report that Basov had disappeared, and that measures were being taken to find him.
Russian Bloc was set up in Crimea in 2002 to advocate the rights of
the Ukrainian region’s Russian speakers. The party unsuccessfully ran
for the Ukrainian parliament in 2012 but Basov was elected Sevastopol
City Council deputy.
