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Dual Citizen Russian/American is Detained in Russia

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Russia’s Federal Security Service—FSB—announced Tuesday that another American citizen is in Russian custody. The FSB said a 33-year-old dual Russian-American citizen based in Los Angeles was arrested on suspicion of treason, the Guardian reports. According to the legal NGO Perviy Otdel, Ksenia Khavana was arrested in Yekaterinburg at the end of January and accused of treason on Feb. 7. The FSB said she had collected funds for a Ukrainian organization and, while in the US, had “participated in public actions in support of the Kyiv regime.” Khavana could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, though analysts suspect she will be used as a bargaining chip.

Perviy Otdel said the treason charge stems from a $51.80 donation Khavana made in the US to the charitable fund Razom for Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. Razom funds humanitarian causes including medical equipment for first responders. Khavana has also been identified as Ksenia Karelina, which could be her maiden name Maryland resident Eleanora Srebroski tells the New York Times that Khavana was once married to her son, but she moved to California when they split up in 2015. “She just brings light everywhere she goes.” She says her former daughter-in-law is a “beautiful person” and she is not surprised by the donation to Ukraine. “Anyone who is hurt, she is on their side.”

Isabella Koretz, president of a spa in Beverly Hills, tells the Times that Khavana has worked there for eight years. The spa said Khavana was arrested after traveling to Russia to visit her grandmother, parents, and younger sister. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said American authorities are trying to get more information and secure consular access, the AP reports. 

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9 Comments on Dual Citizen Russian/American is Detained in Russia

  1. Evelyn Farkus is upto her eyeballs and above on this.
    She is opping Dissenters in Foreign Countries.
    And Paying for it.
    And using OUR money to pay for it.
    And her friends want more.

    Our dual-ing interested Govenment is trying to start a war by buying subversives in Countries THEY don’t like.

    This is like Fanis, bad, real, real bad.

    Like TREASON level bad.
    Sponsered by the U.S. State Department.
    And Lindsey McCain players too.

    It’s all about the Benjis

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  2. Yekaterinburg is home to the headquarters of the Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces,

    WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was also arrested in Yekaterinburg. Weird.

    “Khavana was arrested after traveling to Russia to visit her grandmother, parents, and younger sister. was arrested after traveling to Russia to visit her grandmother, parents, and younger sister.”

    They could have just said “family”. I’d be willing to bet that the “family” doesn’t live in Yekaterinburg.

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  3. Eve’lyn Farkus
    Founding Fellow of The Ukrainian Relief Fund for Ukrainians
    Was raising Ukraine War Funds inside of Russia.

    If I was Putin, I’d be a little pissed too.
    Looks like Eve won’t be doing much international travel, anymore.

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  4. No such thing as “dual” citizenship – it’s a lie to cover some nefarious act(s).

    “No man can serve two masters.”
    (Matthew 6:24)

    And to pretend to do so is hypocrisy, treason, and dissimulation all rolled into one.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  5. People complain that the US, except under certain circumstances, does not allow dual citizenship. However, situations such as this and the case of the Canadian-Iranian citizen show that it does not really protect you if the other country wants to do something.

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  6. BAN DUAL CITIZENS FROM ELECTED LOCAL COUNTY STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICES.
    BAN DUAL CITIZEN RETIRED MILITARY GENERALS TOO.
    BAN DUAL CITIZEN PRESIDENTS
    THEY PLEDGE TO OTHER FLAGS
    THEY CAN NEVER, EVER BE TRUSTED.

    My Treaty

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