Brittney Griner | Caught in the war
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Brittney Griner | Caught in the war

The Hindu  

On Thursday, a court in Russia handed American basketball star Brittney Griner a nine-year sentence for possessing two vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Just because, you know, she can’t make enough money in the WNBA to sustain her life.” Griner was among a dozen WNBA players playing in Russia and Ukraine. The stakes are so high that it was among the topics reportedly discussed in a meeting late last month between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, their first direct conversation since the war broke out in late February. While the U.S. has termed Griner’s arrest and subsequent conviction a case of “wrongful detention”, Russia has insisted that it is a case of the country’s law taking its own course.

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