Russian
police on Thursday said they had detained a Siberian shaman walking to
Moscow on a mission to drive out President
Vladimir Putin who he describes as a "demon".
Police in the eastern Siberian region of Buryatia said they had detained the shaman, Alexander Gabyshev, on a highway near Lake Baikal and would send him back to his home region where he is "wanted for committing a crime".
Gabyshev's eccentric bid to walk from his home city of Yakutsk to Moscow, a distance of some 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles), has seen a group of followers join him on the way.