Posted on 05/07/2022 2:41:09 PM PDT by Kriggerel
A British YouTuber has been arrested in Kazakhstan close to a rocket launch pad rented by Russia.
Benjamin Rich, who is known for visiting risky and remote destinations for his Bald and Bankrupt YouTube channel, has been arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
News of the arrest was announced by the head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos.
In an online post Dmitry Rogozin wrote that Rich - who has 3.53 million followers - and a woman by the name of Alina Tseliupa were being held by one of the launch pads at Baikonur, which Russia rents from Kazakhstan.
Local authorities were determining "the exact level of participation in illegal activities" by the pair, said Rogozin, who posted photos of Rich's visa and Tseliupa's passport.
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Bald/Ben’s quest for Soviet cultural artifacts is about to experience the holy grail - a visit to the gulags.
He put a message on his page:
Pinned by bald and bankrupt
bald and bankrupt
5 hours ago
In a Soviet gulag. Please don’t try saving me, I’m very happy here. Just send me some babushkas, a few viagra tablets and some vodka. See you in a few years. Cheers
I heard he just wound up getting fined £60.
Not a cheap lesson, but a hell of a lot cheaper than the gulag.
“I heard he just wound up getting fined £60.
Not a cheap lesson, but a hell of a lot cheaper than the gulag.”
Russia does not want the bad PR from locking up such a prominent YouTuber. Yes I have seen is videos. He is very good. Very funny and sarcastic. But very nice to the people he encounters in former Soviet nations. And they always feed him good food. The babushkas do.
Avoid this Soviet Exclave!
3,732,925 views-——Jan 15, 2022
If you look at a detailed map of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia you will see some strange shapes appearing in the very south of the country. These are the Soviet formed exclaves belonging to both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They were formed in the 1950s to answer the question of what to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKRNQfp_Y0&t=2s
Probably gained a bunch of new subscribers.
He was in Syria last month. Definitely lives on the edge.
The Cuba episodes were really good, probably the best insight as to what it’s really like there.
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