The Russian drug trial of US basketball star Brittney Griner could be over “very soon”, the lawyer for the WNBA player said, as Washington continues to float the possibility of a prisoner swap for her release.
The 31-year-old Texan arrived in a courtroom near Moscow on Tuesday dressed in khaki and round-rimmed glasses in her seventh hearing for a case where Russian prosecutors have accused the two-time Olympic gold medallist of trying to smuggle less than a gram of cannabis oil into the country.
