Sky News reports in an answer to the question: What's it like being a British journalist in Russia right now?

[https://news.sky.com/story/ask-us-anything-13359143]

For example, correspondents I know from other so-called "unfriendly" countries, like Germany and France, are rarely stopped at the border when entering Russia. 

But I'm held every time, as are the few other British journalists still based here. It can be for several hours, and frequently involves being taken to a small room for extra questioning. 

This may come as news to journalist Ivor Bennett but it is routine to stop and question UK citizens, and not just journalists, entering Russia.

Hello ... The UK is supplying weapons to kill Russians. The UK trains Ukrainian soldiers and deploys 'special forces' in Ukraine to kill Russians. The UK considers Russia the number one threat.

What is surprising is that ordinary Russians do not beat the crap out of you when they find out you are British.

And all this ignores the fact that Russians are not welcome in the UK, not able to compete in international sports competitions under their own flag, banned from Eurovision, sanctioned and subject to asset freezes etc. etc.

As Graham Linehan (Irish) and George Galloway (Scottish) recently discovered, UK border patrol can quite nosy as well, and they are not even Russians trying to enter the UK.

Yes journalists have been detained in Russia (and in Ukraine) and perhaps for spurious reasons - who really knows - but we do know that Israel kills journalists in Gaza, hundreds of them so far, or subjects them to inhumane treatment.

Maybe going to Gaza would be a better place to report from than Russia?

No waiting at the border, just a bullet in the head?

So quit the sob stories and man-up.