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.

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW – A Russian court on July 18 sentenced an American ... Moscow’s court service said in a statement. Leake, a musician and former US paratrooper who was arrested in June 2023, was ...

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 Russian court sentenced a US citizen to 13 years in prison for attempting to sell narcotics, the latest in a series of cases against Americans. Michael Travis Leake was found guilty of ...

Factbox-US Seeks ... jailed in Russia that Washington wants to have returned. These are the nine people that the source said were on the list: STEPHEN JAMES HUBBARD Hubbard, 73, was sentenced ...

a US musician who had lived in Russia for over a decade. Leake was arrested on drug production and distribution charges in June 2023 and sentenced to 13 years in prison in July, according to ...

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 ...

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.