The news that American basketball player Brittney Griner had arrived in the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, also known as the Russian “land of prisons,” left locals rather unmoved. The double Olympic gold medalist was handed nine years in prison in August for drug possession and trafficking over possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity... Read more
Two major gas explosions in Russia have left at least nine people dead including four children, according to local authorities. The first explosion happened on Saturday morning (November 19) at an apartment block on Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East. A section of the five-storey building in the town of Tymovskoye collapsed after a gas... Read more
WNBA star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a Russian penal colony after her appeal against a drug conviction was rejected last month, he attorneys and agent said Thursday. “We can confirm that Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia. We visited her early this week,” Griner’s attorneys Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov... Read more
Griner is nearing her ninth month in detention after being taken into custody at a Moscow area airport in February for possessing vape cartridges with hashish oil, which is illegal in Russia. Griner pleaded guilty in July and was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison in August. “We visited her early this week. Brittney... Read more
Griner has been placed at Female Penal Colony IK-2 in Yavas, which is in the region of Mordovia – the same area where American Paul Whelan is being held, according to Reuters. Griner’s attorneys said her transfer out of a Moscow detention center was initiated on Nov. 4 but the State Department has maintained that... Read more
The US athlete was handed nine years in prison in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil, after she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. Griner’s agent, Lindsay Colas, said: “Despite the fact she is alone and now nearing her ninth month in detention separated from her loved... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday. Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 350 kilometers (210 miles) east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month rejected her appeal of her... Read more
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has reportedly been moved to a women’s penal colony in western Russia, where she will serve out a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession and smuggling. The two-time Olympic gold medalist arrived at Female Penal Colony IK-2 in Yavas, a small town in the country’s Mordovia region, about 300 miles... Read more
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, and KYIV, Ukraine — President Biden said it was “unlikely” that a missile that caused an explosion in eastern Poland was fired from Russia, but he said the information was “preliminary” and said Poland’s allies would support a full investigation. The explosion came as Russia unleashed a wave of missile strikes Tuesday... Read more
UPDATE: Following reports of Russian missiles hitting Poland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it an “attack on collective security” and a “significant escalation.” He wrote on Twitter, “The Russian Federation takes lives wherever it can reach. Today, this Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation. People died. My sincere condolences... Read more
