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British YouTuber ordered to pay £60 fine after Russians detain him at spaceport

A Brit Youtuber has denied he was imprisoned in a "Russian Gulag" after being detained at a Kremlin-leased spaceport in Kazakhstan - and insists he was let off with a £60 fine.

Benjamin Rich, 35, runs the Bald and Bankrupt adventure tourism YouTube channel - which has over 3.5million subscribers.

At the time of his arrest he was visiting the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan with a Belarusian woman called Alina Tseliupa.

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