WNBA star Brittney Griner appears to have a long road through Russia’s judicial system before a trial and potential sentencing
An American schoolteacher was stopped at Moscow’s airport in the summer of 2021 with marijuana and hashish oil in his bags, arrested on drug trafficking charges and remains in prison while under investigation.
A young Israeli-American tourist was detained in 2019 for carrying a small amount of marijuana in her checked luggage and released nine months later on a pardon from Russian President Vladimir Putin after high-level diplomatic negotiations.
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