INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian court sentenced United States basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison and fined her 1 million rubles ($16,590) on
drug charges on Thursday.Griner, 31, was arrested on Feb
Washington revealed last month it had proposed a prisoner swap to Russia in which the basketball player and imprisoned former United States
and appeal is one of these opportunities," People magazine quoted Griner's lawyer Maria Blagovolina as saying hours after judge Anna
ready to discuss this subject, but only within the framework of the [communication] channel established by presidents Putin and Biden,"
is currently serving a 25-year sentence in a prison in Illinois
and internationally recognized governments in an array of conflict zones, including in Afghanistan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the
He was extradited to the United States two years later and convicted of conspiring to kill Americans, supplying anti-aircraft missiles and
the United States could be executed within weeks, Jeff Hawn, a non-resident fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in
