(20 Jun 2024)
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Yekaterinburg, Russia – 20 June 2024
1. Various of Ksenia Khavana in glass cage in courtroom
2. Mid of bailiff in corridor
3. Various of court exterior
STORYLINE:
The trial of a woman with dual US-Russian citizenship on charges of treason opened on Thursday in Yekaterinburg, Russia, amid rising tensions between Washington and Moscow including the arrests of two US journalists.
The trial is being held behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg in the same court that next week is to begin hearing the case of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested in March 2023 and charged with espionage.
The woman on trial is identified by Russian authorities as Los Angeles resident Ksenia Karelina, although US reports frequently use the surname Khavana, the last name of her ex-husband.
A Yekaterinburg native, she was arrested in February while on a family visit. Russia’s main domestic security agency charges that Karelina had raised money for a Ukrainian organization that was providing weapons, ammunition and other supplies to the Ukrainian military.
Karelina faces a sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted. Almost all Russian criminal cases that make it to court end in convictions.
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