By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Michael Conte
Fogel (click here) and his wife, Jane, (pictured above in 2017) were protected under diplomatic status until May 2021, the Russian Interior Ministry added. The US Embassy said it was aware of the case but provided no further comment
The family of an American sentenced to 14 years at a hard labor camp in Russia (click here) fears that he has been given what amounts to a "a death sentence" and is calling on the Biden administration to designate him as wrongfully detained, which would trigger formal diplomatic efforts to secure his release.
American citizen Marc Fogel worked for nearly a decade as a history teacher at the Anglo-American School in Moscow, where children of US diplomats were among his students.
"He is a very, very much beloved teacher, an award-winning teacher," one of his sisters, Anne Fogel, told CNN. "He is an incredibly enthusiastic person, has an amazing zest for life. And that has made him an outstanding teacher, and his students have loved him."
He was arrested 11 months ago at an airport in the Russian capital, where he was returning for the school year, after traveling into the country with cannabis....
I have to wonder how many Ukrainians Marc Fogel is meeting.
Americans need to recognize Russia as a rouge country. It is not a good place anymore for any American interest.
How the heck were these people recruited to Russia? Paul Whelan went to Russia for a wedding. He was arrested as a spy. It is all nonsense. Americans need to realize every one of them are prey to Russia's global gambit for power.
