US basketball player Brittney Griner appeared in a Russian court on Thursday where she pleaded guilty to drug charges that could keep her in prison for 10 years. Host Marco Werman speaks with Russia scholar Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon about Griner’s case and the political tension that surrounds her amid historically poor relations between Washington and Moscow.
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