Karelina Kseniya Pavlovna

In Yekaterinburg on January 27, 2024, officers of the PPSP detained 32-year-old Ksenia Karelin (Ksenia Khavana), a citizen of the Russian Federation and the United States. She was accused of "minor hooliganism. According to the security forces, Karelin, at 11:40, being in a public place near the Zarya cinema, in the presence of strangers, 'used crude obscene language, behaved rudely and provocatively, and did not respond to remarks from citizens and repeated lawful demands from law enforcement officers to cease illegal actions.'", On the same day, Judge Natalia Krasnova of the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Yekaterinburg sent Karelina to administrative arrest for 14 days, referring, among other things, to a report from employees of the regional FSB." On February 7, Karelin was detained on charges of treason. According to the FSB, Ksenia "since February 2022 has been voluntarily collecting money for the interests of one of the Ukrainian organizations, which was subsequently used to purchase tactical medicine items, equipment, means of destruction, and ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine." "The First Department" reports that Ksenia Karelin on 24 February 2022 transferred from her account in an American bank the amount of 51.8 US dollars to the account of the Ukrainian fund "Razom for Ukraine. On February 8, 2024, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sent Karelin into custody. On August 15, 2024, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court found Ksenia Karelin guilty and sentenced her to 12 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, followed by 1.5 years of restriction of liberty and a fine of 300 thousand rubles. rubles. November 11, 2024, the Second Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction left the verdict unchanged. On April 10, 2025, Ksenia Kareliina was released from the colony as part of an exchange for Arthur Petrov, a citizen of Germany and Russia, who was arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the United States for alleged export of microelectronics.