Missing Russian freelance reporter with Tajik weekly said alive, well

DUSHANBE February 1, 2012, Asia-Plus -- A Russian journalist who went missing in Syria 10 days ago is reportedly alive and well, Radio Liberty reported on January 30.

Aleksandr Rybin is now in Turkey and will travel to Georgia, according to the editor in chief of the Tajik weekly Business and Politics, for which Rybin works as a freelance reporter.

The Business and Politics editor, Jamshed Ulmasov, said he had received an e-mail message from Rybin.

There were no further details.

There had been no word from Rybin since January 20 when he left the Syrian seaside town of Latakia.