American ballerina with dual citizenship
arrested in Russia, facing life in prison
for donating $51 to Ukraine
Fox News,
by
Bradford Betz
Original Article
Posted By: snakeoil,
2/21/2024 11:06:04 AM
A 33-year-old amateur ballerina with dual U.S.-Russian citizenship has been detained in Russia and is facing life in prison for allegedly donating $51 to Ukraine’s war effort. Russia's main domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, reported the woman’s arrest on charges of treason. The FSB said the woman is a resident of Los Angeles, California and accused her of collecting money for the Ukrainian military.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/21/2024 11:12:26 AM (No. 1662306)
Well, like in new york, you have nothing to fear if you do as you’re told.
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I'm sure that the Communist AG's in the Blue States are taking notes, and starting to gather names of people who donate to the 'opposition'...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 2/21/2024 11:23:07 AM (No. 1662318)
Anyone going to Russia has to be very careful of their behavior. I went there for business about 4 times per year, 3-4 weeks at a trip, and I can tell you, I was very careful of what I said and did when I was there. Just filling out their damned visa request document was daunting. Questions like "do you have an special training in military skills or firearms?" or words to that effect. I always said "No", and never talked about shooting in Russia. And NEVER talked politics or military issues, NEVER.
If those came up, always non-committal "non-answers" like "well, I don't know about that" or "I don't pay any attention to that stuff". I did admit that my father was a USN officer, because he was high enough rank that they certainly knew about him when they did my background check.
She was very stupid to ever go back to Russia once she got clear. I'll never return, although I might go back to Ukraine, or Georgia or even Armenia some day. Never Russia.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 2/21/2024 11:35:14 AM (No. 1662327)
She has been TRUMPED in
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Yepper 2/21/2024 11:36:55 AM (No. 1662331)
Any American citizen who travels to certain countries (e.g., Iran, N. Korea, Russia, Yemen, etc.) should automatically lose their citizenship and not be allowed back into the country under any circumstances.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/21/2024 11:44:10 AM (No. 1662333)
Why would any American citizen travel to Russia when Biden is supporting Ukraine and dissing Russia?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/21/2024 11:54:02 AM (No. 1662339)
A friend of our family married a 'Russian bride'. She has the duel citizenship and went back to visit Russia every couple years. But the trips stopped after 2012 when she got interrogated about children she had while living in the US. The authorities reminder her that those kids were considered to be Russian. If the kids had been with her on that trip, she feared they could have detained the whole family.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/21/2024 11:59:27 AM (No. 1662344)
I'm shocked! Shocked that Russians run Russia, Iranians run Iran, North Koreans run Nirth Korea!! Don't tge know America runs the world?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snakeoil 2/21/2024 12:27:10 PM (No. 1662365)
#3. In addition to the highly publicized wars in Ukraine and Gaza, there is a conflict flying under the radar of the LSM in Armenia.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-clashes.html
One of my friends was an Armenian and fiercely proud of it. Before his passing, I used to kid him about being one of millions of Armenians who had never been to Armenia. He claimed to speak 5 languages. Don't know but his English was an adventure. Although I'm not particularly religious he took me to services of the Armenia Orthodox Church (?) which I found fascinating. Don't claim to understand world affairs. Just wish the killing and wars would stop.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/21/2024 12:42:52 PM (No. 1662371)
Nothing too small for the Federal Secret Service to investigate. The evil and nastiness of this act is great, but then the FSS is well known for their position and upper story tosses of those they target.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 2/21/2024 2:05:04 PM (No. 1662409)
Well, Joe. What are you going to do about this? She's white, and not a black lesbian female (maybe) basketball player.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/21/2024 2:37:16 PM (No. 1662423)
I have to give Russia one thing, they care who visits.
We let in Millions of people and don't even get their names.
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This business of claiming citizenship in two countries, as I recall, used to be something American law did not recognize. For any US citizen, especially a naturalized one, I thought there was a requirement to renounce any and all allegiance to any other sovereign. If as I have read she did claim dual citizenship, why should she be surprised to be (mis)treated as any other Russian would be . . . .
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
john56 2/21/2024 4:34:42 PM (No. 1662497)
Sadly, if you are a dual Russian American citizen in Russia, your American citizenship won't help you much. The Russian government considers you their citizen and if the laws say you can't send $51 to Ukraine, you are in derp doo-doo.
Do i like yhat? No. But as the old adage goes, when in Rome do as the Romans do.
My son, adopted as an infant over 20 years ago, is also a dual Russian-American citizen. If he were to travel today to Russia, it would have to be on his Russian passport (which he'd have to renew, a story in itself). And once he got to Russia, the military authorities would ask him to come along and discuss that 2 year mandatory military service requirement for all Russian males from ages 16-45.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/21/2024 6:45:57 PM (No. 1662578)
Re #14, we may have traveled back to the USA on the same flight from Russia. I clearly remember that the flights in the early 2000s were chock full of new Russian adopted children. And, frankly, the "strongest" memory is of the smell in the rear of the aircraft towards the end of the flight.....dirty diapers. I understood and understand that there is nothing to be done about it...but it is still a "strong" memory. And a lot of babies crying, although that was mostly at the start of the flights. I think their ears hurt from the altitude change, and not much to be done about it at that age except wait for them to equalize. Perhaps the open mouth from crying would help clear the pressure in the ears.
I would urge your son to never go back to Russia, in very strong terms.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 2/21/2024 7:31:08 PM (No. 1662603)
I don't believe a word of this.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 2/22/2024 1:13:53 AM (No. 1662748)
Re #9, I am aware of the war of MUSLIM Azerbaijan attacking Christian Armenia. I have visited the Armenian "Vatican City". They are somewhat unique, not Russian Orthodox, and they claim to be the earliest Christian denomination, founding their Armenian Christian Church in 300 AD. I don't know how accurate their claims are, but they are good Christians, generally, although when they were part of the USSR they had the usual churches leveled or turned into warehouses or schools, and efforts to destroy all churches.
I attended Easter service one year in Yerevan at a 1200 year old chapel that they were renovating the area around it to make it the centerpiece of the city. This ancient, tiny church had been hidden, literally inside of a couple of warehouses that they built to hide it from the Soviets. And it was only when I was there that they started tearing down these warehouses and grading the land around it, making a big city park around
this tiny chapel. It was pretty amazing to have Easter services at a 1200 year old Armenian Christian church that had survived soviet destruction.
I hope the Armenians are able to fend of the evil Muslim invaders. It is a TINY country, literally 70 miles in it's greatest dimension. The Turk Muslims killed most of them a century ago, and now the Azer Muslims are trying to finish the genocide. And since they are Christians....no Enemedia care to report on it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mifla 2/22/2024 5:51:09 AM (No. 1662817)
Another "in your face" to Biden by Putin.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 2/22/2024 8:02:54 AM (No. 1662891)
It's getting so you can't tell the U.S. from Russia.
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What was her crime? Sending $ 51 to Ukraine or marrying an American?