There's One Part of Brittney Griner's Account of Life in Russian Prison That Really Stands Out
Briefly

It might be fun to see the cable-TV star squirm before the openly lesbian 6-foot-7 basketball player as she schools America's leading Kremlin apologist on the realities of Vladimir Putin's Russia...
At one point in Coming Home, Griner's new memoir of her forced stay in Russia for most of 2022, the nine-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist quotes Nelson Mandela's words...
she "wasn't just another prisoner," as she puts it, but a "chess piece in a showdown between superpowers." Where usually some deal is worked out with a local official, Griner's case "was already at the Kremlin."
The Biden administration formally declared her case one of "wrongful detention," meaning it was put in the hands of a State Department office authorized to bargain with foreign governments...
Read at Slate Magazine
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