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.
