Did aliens abduct this Russian leader?

06 May,2010 07:42 AM IST |   |  Agencies

Russian President urged to investigate claims by a regional politician that he met ETs and if he revealed any state secrets to them


Russian President urged to investigate claims by a regional politician that he met ETs and if he revealed any state secrets to them


Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been urged to investigate a prominent politician who claims he was abducted by aliens.

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the country's southern region of Kalymkia, told a primetime television show he was taken on a spaceship sent to Earth and met extra-terrestrials wearing yellow spacesuits.

Now a Russian politician fears Ilyumzhinov may have divulged state secrets and wants him investigated.

Ilyumzhinov told a television host on Channel One on April 26 that he had spent several hours in the company of aliens.

The 1997 visit

He said they visited his apartment in downtown Moscow on September 18, 1997.

The leader said he was falling asleep when he heard someone calling him from the balcony. Ilyumzhinov went outside and said he saw the spaceship which was a "half-transparent half tube".

Who is he?

Ilyumzhinov has been president of Kalmykia, a small Buddhist region of Russia which lies on the shores of the Caspian Sea, for 17 years.

The millionaire former businessman has a reputation as an eccentric character.

As president of the World Chess Federation, he has spent tens of millions of dollars turning the impoverished republic into a mecca for chess players -- building an entire village to host international tournaments.

He went inside and met human-like creatures in yellow spacesuits.

Ilyumzhinov said he could not communicate with the aliens. But added, "I am often asked which language I used to talk to them. Perhaps, it was on a level of the exchange of ideas".

He said the aliens then gave him a tour of their spaceship.

Ilyumzhinov said the alien spaceship had come to earth to take samples and claims to have several witnesses.

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Russian MP Andre Lebedev has called for inquiry into the claims.

And even asked for guidelines on what politicians should do if they are abducted by aliens. The MP has written a letter to Medvedev raising a list of his concerns.

In his letter he says thatu00a0 assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke -- it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin.

He also asks if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.
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