Banner Headlines On News Story One Day

[Tempus Fugit]

Banner headlines one day about explorers who walked across the Bering Strait from Canada into Russia, followed by reports the following day that two people, one English, the other American, had been arrested by Russian border guards, and were found to be in possession of sat phones, gps navigation equipment, video cameras and a pistol ( oh, yes, ... and business visas ).

 

One of these guys has walked from the south of S America and is on a 'round the world' walk, and is due home some time in 2009, so what's with the arrest bit ?, doesn't news travel quick enough in Russia or is it a 'jobs-worth' syndrome ?

[Lonan3]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2118681,00.html

 

Times: 04-04-06

 

A former paratrooper attempting to walk around the world was being questioned by Russian security services today after becoming the first Briton to cross the ice bridge from Alaska to Russia on foot.

Karl Bushby, 36, was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) after reaching Russia on Friday, halfway through a 36,000-mile walk from South America to Britain that he began in 1998.

FSB border guards also detained Dimitri Kieffer, a 40-year-old endurance runner with French and US citizenship who joined Mr Bushby for the two-week trek across the 55-mile Bering Strait

...the FSB was unimpressed by Mr Bushby’s achievement. It said that he and his colleague, who were apprehended in the remote northeastern region of Chukotka, had valid Russian business visas but had crossed the border illegally and were being held for questioning.

"The American and the Briton did not notify the Russian side through official channels of their crossing, which not only violated border legislation, but also put their lives in serious danger," said Vadim Shibayev, an FSB spokesman.