US man handed six-year prison sentence in Russia for trying to take son abroad

A Russian court has handed a six-year prison sentence to an American man convicted on charges linked to his attempt to illegally take his four-year-old son out of Russia, a verdict that comes amid soaring US-Russian tensions.

The court in Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad region said in a statement that the convict, whose name was not given, visited Kaliningrad in July 2023 to meet with his Russian-born son and attempted to drive him out of the country.