I congratulate all the authorities involved in resolving this issue and providing her freedom again. I realize that may mean congratulations to Vladimir Putin.
It was correct to release her to go home. She is young and innocent and simply involved in social media that provides her popularity.
I can only imagine being held in Indonesia and then released to travel home only to be traumatized in a Russian airport and find herself again a prisoner of a foreign country. She will need time to absorb all that occurred and realize she is trying to hard to be important to others.
She needs to think about herself and her future. Social media will not guarantee her a future that is achieved through education while she sets herself on a path beneficial to herself and her country. If she wants to be an asset to the world in a real way she will realize what a wonderful thing freedom is and how she can serve her country by being educated.
She put herself in a dangerous situation by being an escort to wealthy men. She needs to think about her well being from this day going forward. I don't think wealthy men should have escorts. I think they should have wives.
But, I wish her well. I understand she is worried about her immediate health. I strongly suggest she see a doctor that can provide a complete physical. Sometimes swelling of any kind is an allergy. She may have been exposed to something she is not usually exposed to and she needs testing for all kinds of things, including any heavy metals or other elements of the air that could cause her harm.
I like her. I think she is spunky. She needs a better path forward. Be well. Everyone. Everyone involved should be well and setting themselves on a path of promise to the future. We all have an Earth to worry about.
22 January 2019
...Russian authorities (click here) said she remains a suspect in an unrelated criminal case, the Tass news agency reported.
On Saturday, a Moscow court ruling had extended her detention for allegedly forcing women into prostitution.
According to Russian news agency Interfax, investigators asked the court for her release on Tuesday.
Her lawyer, Dmitry Zatsarinsky, posted a video on Instagram, showing them both in a car after her release.
"Nastya Rybka is free," Mr Zatsarinsky said in the video. "We're going home."
Ms Rybka became famous after posting a video of Russian billionaire industrialist Oleg Deripaska with Russia's deputy prime minister, Sergey Prikhodko, on a yacht in 2016.
She was one of 10 people arrested in Thailand last February for organising a "sex training seminar"....
