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But also, stellar work to Bill and his organization!
I'm glad he is home.  Also, fellow Americans: Don't enter Russia!
"detained by Russian border patrol police in April 2022 after crossing from Poland into Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave which is territory governed by Moscow" >

How dumb do you have to be to illegally cross the Poland/Russia border?
Article says he was in Poland for a music festival. Makes no sense at all. >

Hey those borders get blurry sometimes. >

And now I have to watch it again. thank you >

Always liked that Richardson fella, and now even more so. >

I am really curious to know why he was arrested by Russian border police after just going from Poland to Kaliningrad on a vacation and then held for the majority of a year there. What was his crime? >


I am really curious to know why he was arrested by Russian border police after just going from Poland to Kaliningrad on a vacation 

He crossed the Polish-Russian border, so the border police being involved is quite normal in this case. To explain a bit; there is no physical border between Poland and Kaliningrad - as in, you do not have to stop at a checkpoint and get searched like other international borders, but there are still rules that apply to who can cross into Russia and who cannot.
An American, like Taylor Dudley, is not allowed to enter Kaliningrad without a full official Russian visa, and the US is not one of the 53 countries whos citizens are eligible to apply for a temporary Kaliningrad eVisa.
My guess on this case is that Taylor likely met people at a music festival in Poland and decided to go with them to Kaliningrad, even though he did not have a Russian visa and he was arrested for it. Clearly they judged it to be an honest mistake, as they released him without fanfare in under a year - even though he's a US Navy vet whom they could likely justify was some kind of spy, etc. >

Still, most countries would just deport you for that. Not imprison you for a year or more >

Russia is not “most countries” it seems lol, even as a Canadian I have zero appetite to even consider going to Russia within the next 20 years at minimum lol. >

Now let’s see what bullshit the GOP can come up with as to why this isn’t good enough and how Joe Biden should have done more >

Actually,  if you read the reports, it was Gov Bill Richardson and his non -profit, The Richardson Center for Global Engagement,  that stepped up and forged this release