2024-02-21 15:47:00
A citizen with Russian and American nationality is detained in Russia, accused of donating US$51.80 to a Ukrainian charity, according to her employer
Ksenia Karelina in an undated photo from social networks. (Photo: Ksenia Karelina/Facebook).
Dual Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina, 33, of Los Angeles, is being held in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, accused of donating money to a Ukrainian charity while in the United States, according to her employer. .
Russia accused Karelina of “providing financial assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against the security of our country.”
Karelina entered Russia on January 2, and the United States learned on February 8 that she had been detained, a US official told CNN. According to the official, she has not yet been granted consular assistance.
Before her arrest, she worked as a cosmetologist at Ciel Spa at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, according to the spa itself. At the time of her arrest, she was visiting her relatives, including her 90-year-old grandmother.
Karelina has been unjustly “accused of treason for allegedly donating US$51.80 (about 900 Mexican pesos) to a Ukrainian charity in the United States,” according to her employer’s statement.
“To know Ksenia is to love her, and this heartbreaking news is very difficult to share, but it must be done to spread her story and seek justice. Please help us spread the word to bring Ksenia home,” Ciel Spa said.
What social networks tell us about her: Karelina often posted about her life on the Russian social media platform VK. In November 2021, she posted photos standing between American flags, holding a piece of paper and an American flag. In the post she said that she had obtained American nationality. The US official confirmed that she obtained US citizenship in 2021 and said that the US government is following her detention.
In another post from July 2017, Karelina published several photographs in which she appeared dressed as a dancer, with pointe shoes, a leotard and a tutu, in New York.
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