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Posted on 04/08/2003 2:07:11 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
At approximately 15:00 Moscow time on Tuesday during a routine patrol of the Akros fishing port premesis police officers detained 15 year old Yura Savel'ev, a student at school N-10 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka . The adolescent carried with him a knapsack with some food reserves, clothing, and the Russian flag. This was reported by "Youth Information Agency" of Kamchatka.
It was explained that during a routine security check the boy was caught trying to stowaway on a vessel to Vladivostok.
The adolescent learned from his seaman stepfather about the possibility of going from the port of Vladivostok on a tanker to Iran. From there Yura intended to get to Iraq in order to "battle against the American-British forces."
The fugitive was transferred to his parents, who had already begun searching for him.
Earlier a schoolboy from Samara attempted to run away to Iraq
For two days the search continued in the Samara region for Stas Sokolov a 10 year-old boy who had disappeared from his family's apartment. The boy was discovered by security guards in an automobile transport train at Filippovka station in the adjacent Orenburg region.
As it turned out, the boy was not kidnapped, he ran away from home in order to "protect Iraq from the attacks of American soldiers", reported RIA News.
According to Nikolai Stepankov, watchman at the Filippovka station, the cargo train stopped at the station and into his sentry-box rushed a guard who was carrying the sleeping boy. The guard gave the watchman a document with the child's parent's telephone number. Soon after, the father of the "AWOL soldier" arrived and took Stas back to his home in Samara.
The parents of boy told (the press) that even prior to the beginning of military activities in Iraq, Stas began to ask questions: "Where is Iraq located? How much money and time would it take to get there?" The parents, not suspecting anything, answered all his questions. On the first day of the military operation in Iraq, Stas urgently requested a map of the world and a picture of an American flag.
Stas Sokolov decided to run away on 28 March. The previous night, when all lay to sleep, he took grandfather's knapsack from the wardrobe, some warm clothing, four loaves of bread, two jars of canned foods, a pack of chewing gum, a map, and 600 US dollars which he took from his fathers cashbox.
The next day, instead of going to school, he left for the railroad station where he entered a railroad boxcar and left on his journey. In this railroad car he was detected by a guard's shepherd dog. The boy was not able to convince the guard of his need to reach Iraq. The guard got from Stas the telephone number of his parents, and at the next station brought the boy to the watchman.
Now the parents are maintaining around the clock vigilance of their the son. According to his class leader, Stas always intercedes for those who were being picked on. It gladdens his teachers that he grows up so good and just. Classmates and teachers related to Stas's act with understanding.
Nowadays kids are better informed, I guess.
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This might be life savings.
My old GF's dad worked on the Primorskiy Krai for awhile, panning for gold. He knew off the top of his head how many kgs a champagne bottle or 5-liter bucket of gold dust weighed.
A book for young adults that is still quite popular over there is "Two Captains" about two kids growing up in the post-revolution, pre-war times. At first they were going to run away to Tashkent, where they thought they could live on apricots they picked from trees on the streets. They end up in an orphanage and other state school, growing up to go to war, solve an artic mystery, etc.
They story was made into a play called "Nordost" which was the one the audience was viewing when taken hostage in Moscow last November.
I guess, some things never change... Dreaming kids.
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