My whole crew were detained at Moscow (SVO) because half of the cabin were not on the 'water guard' list and we had diverted from a Narita - Anchorage when the volcano erupted and KLM
had the glider. I went back on board and took 600 cigarettes from the d/f bar and dropped them behind Ivan who suddenly decided we could enter. A 747 crew from LHR arrived about three hours later (pax on a short haul flight) but Ivan and his mates would not let the our cabin crew check back in on our diverted flight to LHR and they had to stay overnight. Very very beaurocratic. The purpose of this? - stay on their good side and if necessary Bribe and Bribe again.