“Two detainees are in Anchorage.

It came as a surprise to us, but we do not expect any stream of faces, ”Anchorage Daily News quotes him as saying.

According to local authorities, Russian citizens were detained on the island of St. Lawrence, a few dozen kilometers from Russia. 

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, Marat Akhmetzhanov, said earlier that about 200,000 Russian citizens had entered the country since September 21.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia reported a reduction in the number of Russian citizens wishing to cross the border.