23 July 2002
German citizen arrested at Brest Fortress while trying to cross into Poland

 A German citizen was arrested on July 17 at the Brest Fortress, a Belarusian World War II memorial in the city of Brest on the Polish border. A police dog located him as he was trying to cross the river separating the Fortress from Poland.
The man, named Vladimir Shmaiderman, confessed he had a bet with a friend that he would make it from Germany to former Soviet republics, crossing every border on his way illegally, and had already passed through Poland and the Baltic States undetected.
The officers who apprehended the border violator, Sergeant Sergei Kuzuba and dog trainer Nikolai Samosyuk, have been decorated with an honorary badge by the Border Troops command.