Russia has released a Russian American imprisoned on treason allegations that Washington has dismissed as absurd, but many other Americans are still in Russian detention. Ksenia Karelina was arrested and jailed last year for donating approximately $52 to a charity that aids Ukraine. Her release is the most recent in a string of high-profile prisoner exchanges between Russia and the United States over the previous three years.

In June 2024, Black, an Army staff sergeant, was convicted in Vladivostok of stealing and making threats against his girlfriend and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. This Monday, an appellate court reduced his sentence to three years and two months. He had flown to Russia from his station in South Korea without permission and was arrested in May after his girlfriend accused him of stealing from her, according to US and Russian authorities.

Woodland, a Russian-born United States citizen, was convicted of narcotics trafficking in July 2024 and sentenced to 12 1/2 years in jail. According to Russian media, his name matches that of a US citizen interrogated in 2020 who claimed to have been born in the Perm region in 1991 and adopted by an American couple when he was two years old. He stated that he traveled to Russia to meet his mother and eventually met her on a television show. Barnes, an engineer from Texas, was arrested in 2022 while visiting his sons in Russia, where their mother had moved them. His defenders argue the lady fabricated unfounded charges of sexual abuse, which had already been dismissed by Texas investigators, yet a Russian court convicted him on those claims in February 2024. Spector, formerly an executive at a medical equipment company in Russia, was previously convicted of enabling bribes to a Russian government official and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison in September 2022.

Gilman, identified in Russian media as a former US Marine, was convicted of punching a police officer after being removed from a train for inciting a disturbance and sentenced to three and a half years in 2022. He was eventually found guilty of hitting a prison inspector during a cell check, beating an investigator, and assaulting a prison guard, and was sentenced to seven years and one month in jail in October 2024. Spector, a Russian-born US citizen, was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in prison in December 2024. Spector, a former executive for a medical equipment firm in Russia, was previously convicted of facilitating payments to a Russian government official and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison in September 2022.

Tater was detained in August 2024 at an expensive Moscow hotel following a dispute over paperwork. He is accused of assaulting an officer at a police station. He was convicted of hooliganism in connection with the hotel incident and sentenced to 15 days in jail, but he is still awaiting trial for attacking a law enforcement officer. This carries a maximum sentence of five years. He has rejected the assault charges, claiming that they were the result of miscommunication. Tater alleged in a September court hearing that he came to Russia seeking political asylum and was being persecuted by the CIA. According to the state-run Tass news agency, a Moscow court ordered him to be admitted to a psychiatric clinic for treatment.