Lugar, Obama Detained in Russia Delegation Released After Standoff Resolved

Evansville Courier & Press › August 31, 2005

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A U.S. delegation headed by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was detained Sunday for three hours at an airport in Russia before being allowed to leave the country for Ukraine.

Russian border guards at the airport in the Siberian city of Perm demanded to search the U.S. government aircraft carrying the delegation, which also included Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who was making his first foreign trip since becoming a senator. Obama is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

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Lugar, Obama Detained in Russia Delegation Released After Standoff Resolved

American officials, citing a U.S.-Russian agreement that does not allow such inspections, refused t...

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