Robert Woodland, a Russia-born U.S. citizen, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison on drug trafficking offences in July.

A court in the Russian capital has rejected an American citizen’s appeal against against his sentence on drug-related charges ...

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday ... he was born in the Perm region in the Ural Mountains in 1991 and adopted by an American couple at age 2. He said he traveled to Russia to find his mother ...