An
Armenian citizen has been detained by Russian border guards while attempting to
ileggaly cross the Armenian-Turkish border.
The press service of the Border Department of Russia's
Federal Security Service in Armenia, the man tried to cross the border after a
dispute with his relatives on Dec 22 but was stopped by an alarm system 150
meters away from the border.
The man had no passport with him. When asked why he
did it, he said that he stayed with his relatives living in the village of
Akhurik but quarreled with them and decided to go to Turkey. The detainee acted
defiantly and quite strangely but he was not drunk.
A few hours later the man's relatives brought his
passport and confirmed his identity.