Benjamin Rich, a British vlogger, who was detained yesterday at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for trespassing a Buran launching site, is now free to go with a £60 fine, according to his Instagram profile.
“I was questioned by the Russian police for a few hours for going to see the Buran rocket without special permission and given a £60 administrative fine just like hundreds of foreign adventurers before me. The police also were nice enough to show me the closed town of Baikonur, it has an awesome mosaic of a cosmonaut. I am currently lying in my hotel room watching TV and eating Doshirak [instant noodles]. Hardly a GULAG,” he wrote on his Instagram stories.
Benjamin Rich / Instagram
Benjamin Rich has a YouTube channel called bald and bankrupt. The channel has more than 3.5 million subscribers. He travels the world and has visited many post-Soviet countries. His goal is to “show how local people really live”. Rich is a fluent speaker of Russian.
