Naama Issachar affair

In April 2019 in Sheremetyevo International Airport, Russian authorities arrested Israeli-American Naama Issachar (Hebrew: נעמה יששכר), a transit passenger flying from India to Israel, for alleged drug smuggling after some 10 grams (⅓ oz) of marijuana or hashish[1] were found in her bag during a stopover in Moscow.

[2] On 11 October 2019, a Russian court sentenced her to seven and a half years in prison on drug possession and smuggling charges.

[3] Issachar's family and Israeli officials said that Russia told them she would be released if Aleksey Burkov (Russian: Алексей Бурков), a Russian national pending extradition from Israel to the United States on suspicion of committing cyber crimes, was released to Russia.

[7] On 19 October 2019, rallies were held in Tel Aviv and New York City calling for Issachar's release.

"[9] In December 2019, the Israeli Justice Ministry transferred the historical Alexander compound [ru] in Jerusalem to the Putin-allied Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society from the competing Imperial Orthodox Palestine Historic Society, which many commentators linked to negotiating Issachar's release.