Possible retaliation from Russia over spy scandal researchers arrested abandoned on island
EXCERPT:
(translated from Russian)
Scientists on the Kamchatka ship left on uninhabited islands

It has been reported by Radio CD that the Russian border guards who seized the ship Georg Steller, have left behind about 20 members of the Russian-American expedition on the uninhabited island.

As stated by the Coast Guard after the seizure of the vessel, it was revealed that on board are only 11 out of 29 passengers. The captain of the Georg Steller, has said that all the missing passengers are still on the islands with the expedition. The captain of the border patrol ship who carried out the seizure decided to have the vessel escorted to a nearby port.

According to the radio, "The Georg Steller, was seized for repeated violations of border regulations."

Steller
EXCERPT:
George Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746) was born in Windsheim, Germany, and given a strong
education for the time. After finishing his univesity work he went to Russia where he found work
as a naturalist for the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. It was from there that he went as
naturalist on Vitus Bering’s last expedition into the ocean east of Siberia. Steller became the first
white man known to have stepped upon land that eventually became known as Alaska.