U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been taken to the Russian region of Mordovia, notorious since Soviet times for its penal colonies, to serve a 9-year sentence on drugs charges.

As U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner faces a Russian penal colony, one woman says it's a world intimately familiar: Maria Alyokhina. She's a member of the famous feminist music group Pussy Riot ...