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Mountain Ingushetia is amazing! Mountains, tower complexes, nature—it's all absolutely incredible. I'll post pictures later.

But there was a small catch thanks to border guards and some weird laws. Turns out you can't fly a drone within a 5 km zone near the border without special permission (honestly, I still don't get why—enemy satellites get just as good pictures anyway). The border guards kindly let me know this when they happened to drive by while I was launching. We worked it out so I'd stop flying and they'd go on their way. There was also the option of me riding along with them to file a report, but neither of us were really into that idea.