Russia orders U.S. citizen detained until on drugs charges

A Moscow court said on Tuesday that it had remanded American citizen Robert Romanov Woodland in custody until March 5 on drugs possession charges, which can carry up to 20 years in prison. A Facebook account in the name of Robert Woodland indicated that he had been working as an English teacher in Russia, and lived outside Moscow.

The U.S. says that several of its citizens are wrongfully imprisoned in Russia, including Marine Corps veteran Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. (Writing by Felix Light; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)