Marc Fogel, an American who had been detained in Russia since 2021, landed again within the U.S. on Tuesday.
Fogel, a historical past instructor who was working on the Anglo-American College in Moscow, returned to the U.S. after his launch from Russia following talks with the Trump administration.
He was serving a 14-year sentence after his arrest in August 2021 at a Russian airport for possession of medicine, which his household mentioned was medically prescribed marijuana.
MOTHER OF FREED AMERICAN HOSTAGE MARC FOGEL THANKS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: ‘HE KEPT HIS PROMISE’
Marc Fogel, a Pennsylvania historical past instructor who was working on the Anglo-American College in Moscow, returned to U.S. soil Tuesday evening, after Russia, the place he had been detained since 2021. (The White Home by way of X)
AMERICAN MARC FOGEL RELEASED FROM RUSSIAN CUSTODY
US President Donald Trump greets former detainee Marc Fogel as he arrives on the White Home in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. (Photograph by TING SHEN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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U.S. President Donald Trump held an occasion to welcome again launched American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who had been held in Russia since 2021, on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Fogel was seen in an image posted by the White Home on social media smiling and elevating his fist whereas wrapped in an American flag as he walked off the aircraft on U.S. soil.
“MARC FOGEL IS BACK!!! PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT!!!” the White Home wrote on X.
