The OTHER American woman jailed in Russia who you’ve never heard of

While Brittney Griner’s Russian incarceration dominates headlines, another American woman is sitting behind bars in the same jail waiting for the world to take the same – or at least some – interest in her case. 

Sarah Krivanek, also known as Sarah Rae Burns and Sarah Duncan, is a 46-year-old teacher and mother from Colorado who has been behind bars in Moscow since last year, when she was arrested for assaulting her abusive, drunk Russian boyfriend Mikhail Karavaev.

He had beaten her up in a drunken rage and she retaliated by cutting him in the nose. Russian media states that she tried to slice it off, but she insists it was nothing more than a scratch. 

The boyfriend has tried to retract his police claim but Sarah remains incarcerated. Her friends are now pleading for the White House…