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Russia sentences US dual citizen to 12 years for treason

Ksenia Karelina, second from left, with her former in-laws and ex-husband in Maryland, the US [File: Handout/Eleonora Srebroski via Reuters]

A court in Russia has sentenced US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina to 12 years in prison after finding her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg returned its verdict on Thursday, sending the 32-year-old ballet dancer and spa worker, who pleaded guilty last week at a closed trial, to a “general regime colony”.

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