According to The Post Millennial, Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, dismissed US concerns over WNBA player Brittney Griner’s Russian wrongful detention and said on Thursday that the US must show respect for Russia’s laws on the matter:
“If a US citizen was taken in connection with the fact that she was smuggling drugs, and she does not deny this, then this should be commensurate with our Russian, local laws, and not with those adopted in San Francisco, New York and Washington,” said Maria Zakharova.
“You understand, if drugs are legalized in the United States, in a number of states, and this is done for a long time, and now the whole country will become drug-addicted, this does not mean that all other countries are following the same path,” Zakharova continued.
