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A woman inspects goods at a marketplace in the town of Yavas in Mordovia, central Russia, on November 19, 2022, as US' Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, was escorted to serve her sentence there. - US' Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, began serving her sentence at IK-2. Russia said it hoped the United States will return notorious Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout in a prisoner swap, after American basketball star Brittney Griner was transferred to a penal colony. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)