Don't travel with drugs?
I didn't inhale... Lol
And for the record, I don't even smoke cigarettes. The point I was making is, usually when a story like that emerges It doesn't sound alarming to the average/normal traveler. We may feel bad for them but the general notion is, They were smuggling drugs and deserve some punishment.
In this case, 1st of all she denies knowing of the drugs and suspects it was planted, 2nd of all, it appears she was chosen as a leverage. Why would they even search her luggage when she didn't try to enter Russia?
The Russians were upset on the Israelis about a detained hacker that was going to be extradited to the US and wanted to do an exchange. In the end Israel did send the hacker to the US, so the deal never happened.