Russian tourist detained in Thailand for feeding fish, may face jail

‘A 53-year-old Russian woman has been arrested in Thailand’s Phuket Province and is awaiting a court hearing after she was caught feeding some bread to fish near ecologically sensitive coral reefs in the popular tourist destination.
The woman, Olga Smirnova, has been in pretrial detention at a police station in Chalong, as she didn’t have the money to be released on bail before the Thai judges make their decision.
“We managed to talk to officials at the police station, where the woman is being kept. The Russian citizen did not have the money needed for the bail, which is almost $3,000, and that’s why she is awaiting the trial there,” a Russian consulate representative told RIA Novosti news agency.’
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