Ballerina Freed in US-Russia Prisoner Swap
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Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American ballerina jailed in Russia for donating to a Ukraine charity, has been freed in a prisoner exchange with the US. Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, was sentenced to 12 years for treason. In exchange for her release, the US released Arthur Petrov, a dual German-Russian citizen accused of illegally exporting microelectronics to Russia. The swap concluded after over a year of Karelina's imprisonment in Yekaterinburg.
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