United States offering prisoner swap for her release from Russia
The American arrived at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow and was arrested after a luggage search found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil that was prescribed by a U.S. doctor to treat chronic pain. There were various detention facilities, a guilty plea, a hearing in front of Russian judge and an implausibly long prison sentence.We’re talking about Marc Fogel, a 61-year-old history teacher at the Anglo-American School in Moscow that was created by the U.S.
Fogel’s wife says she has yet to hear from anyone other than what she describes as mid-level State Department officials. Whelan, who also holds Canadian, British and Irish passports, was arrested in Moscow in 2018 on espionage charges after allegedly receiving a USB drive with classified material from a Russian citizen. He was sentenced to 16 years in 2020 and talk of including him in a prison swap didn’t accelerate until Griner was detained at Sheremetyevo airport in February, just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Griner, like dozens of WNBA players, had done this for years. She first played for a team in China that paid her $600,000, more than 10 times her rookie salary in the WNBA. Since 2015, she has moonlighted with UMMC Ekaterinburg, which is bankrolled by two Russian oligarchs who want to win women’s basketball titles.
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