American ballerina accused of spying stands trial in Moscow for $51 Ukraine donation
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Around a dozen cases in Russia focus on exaggerated charges in what appears to be a crackdown on anti-war and anti-Putin sentiment in the country as the Ukraine war languishes.
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Authorities claim that Karelina raised money for the Ukrainian army and took part in "public actions" that supported Ukraine while in the U.S., but her boyfriend, Chis Van Deerden, insisted that Karelina is "proud to be Russian, and she doesn’t watch the news. She doesn’t intervene with anything about the war."
Karelina had reportedly told her boyfriend that Russia was safe, and he had no reason to fear her visiting, according to her former mother-in-law Eleonora Sreborski.
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