American citizen sentenced to 12.5 years in Russian prison

American citizen sentenced to 12.5 years in Russian prison

A Russian-born U.S. citizen was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison for drug-trafficking related charges in Moscow on Thursday, according to court officials.

Robert Woodland, born in Russia in 1991, was adopted by American parents at the age of two. Woodland returned to Russia at the age of 26 in order to meet his birth mother, he claimed.

 

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