OREANDA-NEWS Vladimir Tekuchev and Sergey Samoilov are currently with their relatives in Russia.

According to Aleksandr Malkevich, the head of the National Values ​​Protection Fund (FZC), the release of sailors was primarily affected by the work of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Russian citizens who collected materials for sociological research in Libya were detained in May this year after meeting with Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Safe.

At the same time, the reasons for the conclusion of Russian sociologists who were exclusively engaged in observing life in an African state are still not clearly identified.