Megan Black said her husband's trip to Russia was "ill-advised" but simply part of an extramarital affair. Black's mother said she thought he had been set up by his girlfriend.
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    The wife of Gordon Black, the American soldier detained on theft charges in Russia, said he traveled there because he was having an affair and was not involved in “geopolitical intrigue.”

    Megan Black is in the process of divorcing her husband and called on Russian authorities through a statement from her attorney, Brett Pritchard, to release him to provide comfort to their 6-year-old daughter.

    The couple were together for nine years and had known each other since 2014 and were married in Belton, Texas, north of Austin, after Black was stationed at the nearby Fort Cavazos.

    The attorney’s statement said Black’s detention in Russia had placed the divorce proceedings, including questions over property ownership, in “limbo” in a family law court in Texas.

    On Wednesday, Black’s mother, Melody Jones, told NBC News that she thought her son was set up and “lured” to Russia from where he was stationed in South Korea by a woman she named as Aleksandra Vashchuk.

    The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry office in Vladivostok has also said Black’s detention had nothing to do with politics or espionage.

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