Russia: Police Extort Foreign Tourists

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | May 16th, 2007 | Trackback

Foreigners must leave their passports at their hotels on arrival to be registered by authorities, but police can detain and hold for several hours any traveler not carrying a passport. This situation creates opportunities for police to extort bribes from visitors who head for Red Square without their passports. According to Moscow’s Association of Guides and Tour Managers, this happens all the time, so often that the group sent a letter of protest to the Kremlin and the federal government, but has had no response in a month.

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