text:  A Russian court has sentenced an American to 12 and a half years in prison on drug-related charges. NPR's Charles Maines reports from Moscow on the latest jailing of an American amid tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine. 32-year-old Robert Woodland of New York State was detained in January of this year and charged with the large-scale production and sale of illegal narcotics. Now a Moscow judge has convicted Woodland of possessing and attempting to distribute the synthetic drug mephedrone.