Britney Greiner.
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Two-time Olympic champion in basketball, US women’s national team star Brittney Greiner has finally returned home from her imprisonment in Russia.
On February 17 of this year, Grainer went to Russia to represent the Yekaterinburg “UGMK” women’s basketball team. Electronic cigarette cartridges with marijuana oil, which is illegal in Russia, were found in her luggage at the airport in Moscow. According to the Russian legislation, this was punishable by ten years in prison, which Grainer also received.
The basketball player explained that marijuana oil, which is legal in her home country, was necessary for her to soothe chronic pain in her body. The Russian side considered it drug smuggling and convicted the basketball players. Grainer was even sent to a convict colony near the Urals. Since the summer, US and Russian authorities have been trying to make an exchange possible in informal talks.
In 2011, the United States sentenced a Russian citizen, Victor Buta, to 25 years in prison, who was accused and convicted of arms trafficking. Butt had linked his concern with Colombia to take down the drug cartels.
He was arrested in Thailand in 2008. A former military man and connected to the Russian security service FSB, Russia has long sought his release. Well, the cards were stacked, Grainer against Buta. The basketball player was already on her way to her homeland yesterday, But also returned to Russia yesterday. The exchange of prisoners took place in the United Arab Emirates.
By far the most famous and perhaps the most dramatic prisoner exchange between the US and Russia, then the USSR, took place in 1962, when the US recovered its Air Force pilot Francis Powers, whose plane had been shot down over Soviet skies, in exchange for the Russian spy Rudolf Abel.
The exchange was interesting in that it took place on a bridge that at the time separated the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). About this case, a feature film “Bridge of Spies” directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks was made in Hollywood.
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