An American musician has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in Russia on drug charges, according to reports. Michael Travis Leake, who is also a former paratrooper, was accused of organizing a ...

A Russian-born U.S. citizen who was already behind bars in Russia on a bribery conviction has been handed a second sentence for espionage. Eugene Spector was sentenced to a new 15-year term for ...

The US musician was sentenced to 13 years in jail at a time when diplomatic relations between the US and Russia were at an all-time low. Who Is Travis Leake? Leake was the frontman of Lovi Noch ...

A Moscow court has on Tuesday sentenced a US citizen to 15 years in prison for espionage, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Gene Spector, who was born in Russia but later moved to ...

American citizen Travis Leake has been sentenced to 13 ... at a historic low, with Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine raging on. Leake is one of at least a dozen US citizens and dual ...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine ... New Jersey musician James “Jimmy” Wilgus was working on a movie soundtrack with a director in Russia when he was arrested ...

A former U.S. paratrooper and rock musician detained in Russia more than a year ago on drugs charges was on Thursday sentenced to 13 years in jail, Moscow's courts service said. Moscow's ...

US citizen Joseph Tater leaves Russia following his detention in Moscow last August and later compulsory psychiatric treatment.

MOSCOW — An appellate court in Russia’s far east on Monday reduced the prison sentence for an American ... of returning to the continental United States, Black flew from Incheon, Republic ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing joe.edwards@newsweek.com An American musician has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in Russia on drug charges, according to reports.

Once a prominent executive in Russia's medical equipment industry, Spector received a 3.5-year prison sentence in September ... but he emigrated to the United States and received American ...

According to the prosecutor's office, Mr Leake, a former paratrooper and musician ... he was sentenced before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has weakened relations between US and Russia.