Alyona Topolyanskaya

A 35-year-old man was detained after he tried to force his way into the Kremlin, saying he wanted to marry President Dmitry Medvedev's daughter.

Medvedev has a teenage son but no daughters. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Medvedev's predecessor as president, has two daughters.

The man, whom police identified only as Bakhtiyar from Dagestan, was sent for psychiatric tests.

He had been working as a crane operator in Moscow for two years but lost his job when the construction site where he worked closed down, police said.