ARRESTING ADVENTURE: Son of Putin associate detained for flying drone in Svalbard says it was during innocent expedition (and he’s a British national)

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Photo courtesy of Andrey Yakunin

Andrey Yakunin, 47, was detained by Norwegian police earlier in October for flying a drone in Norwegian airspace. He is now in custody in Tromsø while the investigation continues.

“I have done my best to help the police investigation, and I’m hoping this situation will be solved fast,” Andrey Yakunin said via his lawyer.

The Barents Observer has insight into Yakunin’s diary notes from the Svalbard sailing and can here show some of the photos taken by himself and his team, including images from the drone that caused the arrest now making worldwide news headlines.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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