The original BTCR is being revived after 3 years. So there is BTCR and BTCRP. Seperate chains.
Yes...its is pretty much dead coin now. He swaped the coins and took all the money from previous BTCR coin I think.
Yes there was a swap performed when BTCR was a dead project and novaexchange was shutting down.
BTCRP is still running. the network has 20 masternodes and the coin can be traded on biten.trade.