What happens if I am detained at a border due to a Russian Red Notice?

Upon detention, local authorities will hold you while verifying the alert’s validity and assessing extradition obligations. You typically have 24–72 hours before an initial court hearing on provisional arrest. Immediate legal action is essential: your lawyer must challenge the notice’s compliance with Article 3 (political nature) and request urgent intervention with Interpol’s General Secretariat. Simultaneously, bail applications should be filed in the detaining country. The outcome depends heavily on the jurisdiction—EU states and the UK increasingly refuse Russian extradition requests, while other countries may be less predictable.