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Afghanistan
Russian Embassy Reacts to Detention of Ethnographer in Afghanistan
2025-07-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

I guess candlelit dinners and windy walks in the desert ain't working out so well for Russia.
They were determined to show the world they are the opposite of America. Except they’re still Sunday People, so …
[Regnum] The Russian Embassy in Kabul knows about the detention of Russian ethnographer Svyatoslav Kaverin in Afghanistan and is working to resolve this issue. Representatives of the diplomatic mission reported this on July 20.

“We are aware of this and are looking into the matter,” RIA Novosti reports a source in the Russian embassy as saying.

Svyatoslav Kaverin is an employee of the Center for Paleoethnological Research and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The day before, on July 19, he reported on his Telegram channel that he was detained in Kunduz on charges of attempting to export jewelry.

According to this information, the ethnographer is currently being taken to Kabul. Kaverin also stated that he is not always given access to his own phone.

Posted by:badanov

#1  Скорпион и лягушка.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2025-07-21 08:28  

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