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Basketball star Brittney Griner started serving her sentence in a remote Russian penal colony, her lawyers said on Tuesday.
“Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia,” lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement.
“We visited her early this week. Brittney is doing as well as could be expected and trying to stay strong as she adapts to a new environment.” The two lawyers said in a statement.
Griner was handed a nine-year prison sentence in August for…
