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A US citizen who was adopted from Russia as a toddler has been sentenced to a 12-and-a-half-year prison term after he returned to his motherland to look for his birth mom.
Robert Woodland, 32, was arrested and held on drug charges earlier this year after he decided to stay in the authoritarian country following his dramatic reunion with with his biological family on a Russian TV show.
He was found guilty by a Moscow court of attempting to traffic a large quantity of drugs as part of an organized group and was sentenced on Thursday.
Images from the hearing show Woodland appearing in court with a shaved head inside a glass courtroom box, smiling only briefly before his verdict was read aloud.
Woodland was identified by Russian media as the English teacher interviewed by the Komsomolskaya Pravda outlet.
In the 2020 interview, Woodland said he was born in Russia’s Perm region in 1991, where he was adopted by an American couple when he was only 2 years old…
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