LONDON - A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason on Thursday (June 20) after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army. Ksenia Karelina, who was born in Russia but had built a new life as an aesthetician at a Los Angeles spa after immigrating.
A portrait of Ksenia Karelina with her former in-laws and ex-husband in Maryland, US, on Dec 13, 2015.LONDON - A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason on Thursday after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army.
The court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg published a short video of Karelina sitting in a glass cage, wearing jeans and a green plaid shirt. She smiled faintly as reporters snapped photographs. Her former mother-in-law, Eleonora Srebroski, told Reuters in February that Karelina had travelled home around the New Year after her boyfriend surprised her with a plane ticket.
Srebroski said Karelina had made a small donation to Razom for Ukraine, a New York-based nonprofit that sends non-military assistance to the country, invaded by Russian forces in 2022.
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