{"id":9560,"date":"2022-10-30T07:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T07:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/10\/30\/kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential\/135849\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T07:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T07:48:03","slug":"kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin: Any talks about Griner swap must be confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Russia_Griner_30025-3-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The Kremlin on Wednesday kept the door open for talks on a possible swap involving jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner but reiterated that any such discussions must be kept strictly confidential.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian court on Tuesday rejected Griner\u2019s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession. The eight-time all-star center with the WNBA\u2019s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Griner could be freed as part of a prisoners swap with Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters that \u201cwe always say that any contacts about possible exchanges can only be conducted in silence under a tight lid on any information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/10\/26\/kremlin-any-talks-about-griner-swap-must-be-confidential\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The Kremlin on Wednesday kept the door open for talks on a possible swap involving jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner but reiterated that any such discussions must be kept strictly confidential. A Russian court on Tuesday rejected Griner\u2019s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession. The eight-time all-star center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8232,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}