November 4, 2008
Leaving Kazakhstan With Cash Costs a Professor Dearly
Moscow
After several hours of detention at an airport in Kazakhstan on charges of smuggling, three days in a hospital, and weeks of waiting for court hearings, Victor A. Skormin, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton, returned to the United States on Sunday. The cost of leaving a country he had visited as a guest lecturer: about $16,000.
His is a cautionary tale of academic travel to a country that was part of the former Soviet Union.
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