RUSSIA RELEASES STUDENT

John E. Tobin Jr., the Fulbright scholar from Connecticut, was freed from a
Russian prison camp after his captors told a local court that he had been a
model inmate, good at woodworking, sports and churchgoing. No one mentioned
the case's bizarre course: Russian accusations that he was not only a drug
user but an American spy-in-training (he once served in an Army reserve
intelligence unit) -- and his own allegation that Russian agents
manufactured the drug charge after he refused to become their informant.
Mr. Tobin was silent after his release from a prison sentence that once
totaled 37 months. But the warden gave him souvenirs and promised to e-mail.