Putin is shitting his pants! That 50 bucks could have gone to the troll farm, y'know.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/20/europe/russia-arrest-us-dual-citizen-intl >Russia arrests US-Russian citizen for treason after she gave $51 to Ukraine, employer says A US-Russian dual citizen was arrested in Russia on charges of treason for allegedly donating just $51 to a Ukrainian charity, according to the Californian spa where she worked.
Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old woman who lives in Los Angeles, was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for allegedly “providing financial assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against Russia security,” according to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
Video shared by Russian state media RIA Novosti showed what appeared to be Karelina with a hat pulled over her eyes being escorted by a security official before being handcuffed and appearing in a courtroom holding cell.
Karelina, who became a US citizen in 2021, entered Russia on January 2 but the US did not learn of her arrest until February 8, a US official said.
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She is accused of donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity in the US, according to a statement from her employer, a spa at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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The State Department on Tuesday said it was aware of Karelina’s detention and that the US has not been granted consular access to her.
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In a post on Russian social media platform VK in November 2021, Karelina shared a picture of herself standing between two American flags and waving a paper flag of her own as she celebrated becoming a US citizen. Her VK profile said she graduated from the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg in 2014, and that she also studied at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Other images of Karelina have emerged showing her modeling for the stock photography company Shutterstock, including some that show her posing as a ballerina In New York City in 2017.>US citizens detained in Russia
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In December 2022, Russia released US basketball star Brittney Griner in a prisoner swap that involved Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Griner, who had for years played in Russia during the WNBA off-season, was detained in February of that year on drug smuggling charges at a Moscow airport.
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>>1269499 >Viktor Bout This guy is now an elected politician in Russia
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>>1269495 >She is accused of donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity in the US accused for supporting and arrested for trying to leave the country..
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>>1269506 >She has been accused of treason for allegedly donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity in the US. Anonymous
>>1269494 Sounds like treason to me.
FSB want fine ballerina to dance for them
FSB want fine ballerina to dance for them Thu 22 Feb 2024 06:46:23 No. 1269523 Report Quoted By:
>>1269511 Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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>>1269494 i'd arrest her too should've donated that to biden's campaign to stop the orange man. Who cares what's happening in her old country.
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>>1269514 Only Ivan would think so
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>>1269499 Funny how the USA could've received someone with infinitely more value than a WNBA player, but instead use this deal to virtue signal.
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Why would she go back to Russia after successfully escaping it
