A Russian court on Thursday sentenced former US marine Trevor Reed to nine years in prison for assaulting two police officers while drunk last year.
Reed, a 29-year-old student and former marine from Texas, allegedly attacked police after attending a party in Moscow.
He appeared wearing a facemask in a cage for defendants in a courtroom in the Russian capital as the judge read out the guilty verdict, saying the police officers had suffered “mental and physical harm.”
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Russian tourism: come in for 10 days, stay for 10 years. Regular Russian citizens don’t get more than a year for beating up a cop – 15 days is much more common for drunken hooliganism in fact; this was obviously a political anti-Western persecution. If you are an American or an Israeli, and you are not suicidal, stay away. Don’t even get a connecting flight there.