[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

See post 23

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Richard Garriott has more recently confirmed that he is the owner of Lunokhod 2. He is the the world’s only private owner of an object on a foreign celestial body

[Ronaldus Magnus]

See the link in post 25 or "Lunokhod 2 continues to be detected by lunar laser ranging experiments and its position is known to sub-meter accuracy".

The "mystery" in the article appears to be a false premise. Researchers knew exactly where it was and have been bouncing lasers off of it since at least 2002.