US Soldier Jailed for Nearly 4 Years in Russia After Love Story Turns Sour

Published on June 19, 2024

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia—A U.S. soldier was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly four years in a Russian penal colony after being found guilty by a Russian court of stealing $113 from his girlfriend and making threats to kill her, a Reuters witness reported from the courtroom. The judgement brings an end to a tempestuous love story that brought together—and then tore apart—a married U.S. staff sergeant and a Russian woman after an international romance that stretched from South Korea to Russia. Gordon Black, a 34-year-old U.S. staff sergeant, was detained on May 2 in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok after an argument with his girlfriend, Alexandra Vashchuk, whom he had met while in South Korea....

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