STORY: :: Russian-American Ksenia Karelina goes on trial for alleged treason in Russia
:: June 20, 2024
:: Karelina was arrested earlier this year and accused of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army
:: Yekaterinburg, Russia
Ksenia Karelina, who was born in Russia but had built a new life as an aesthetician at a Los Angeles spa after immigrating to the United States over a decade ago, faces a sentence of 12 years to life in prison if found guilty.
Her trial will be held behind closed doors, as is customary in such cases in Russia. Treason acquittals are rare there.
The court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg published a short video of Karelina sitting in a glass cage, wearing jeans and a green plaid shirt. She smiled faintly as reporters snapped photographs.
