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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Io Dodds

Harvard scientist who opposed Ukraine war ‘fears deportation back to Russia’ after having her US visa revoked

A Harvard scientist who fled Russia because she opposed the war in Ukraine is facing deportation from the U.S. after being detained over undeclared frog embryos.

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at the U.S. border on February 16 while returning from France and had her visa revoked, according to her friend Cora Anderson.

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