An aide to Russian Premier Vladimir says that freeing WNBA and Olympic star Brittney Griner from being imprisoned on drug smuggling charges 'is not a priority' for the Kremlin. U.S. citizen Griner, 31, a two-time Olympic basketball gold medalist, was arrested in February after she was allegedly caught carrying two vape cartridges containing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport by a police dog. She was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on August 4 after pleading guilty. Yury Ushakov, an advisor to Putin who spent a decade as Russia's ambassador to the United States between 1998 and 2008, believes President merely wants to boost his grim-looking midterm election prospects.
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