Security on Parliament Hill was quite strict Thursday as Karlheinz Schreiber arrived in handcuffs with police escorts. Reporters who can usually move around easily with their Hill passes prominently displayed, were stopped from entering some corridors.

But members of another group seemed totally mystified over why they were stopped in holding patterns from moving to and from their many destinations in Centre Block. They were the many delegates and reporters travelling with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

He arrived Wednesday evening and had a full day of events on Thursday. Zubkov was hopping from honourary receptions, to luncheons with the speakers of the Senate and the House of Commons, to meetings with Prime Minister Harper and Leader of the Opposition Stephane Dion.

When asked, one reporter from Russia said they knew little about the story of Karlheinz Schreiber. He said they were more interested in going outside where they could move around more easily and take pictures of Ottawa on such a beautiful day.

It was a country "exactly as I thought it would be," he said, as he went outside into a blinding snow storm to take his pictures.