Karelina -- a 33-year-old ballet dancer -- was serving a 12-year prison sentence in a penal colony, having been convicted of treason in August 2024. She was accused of organizing fundraisers for ...

Former ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen who faced 12 years in a Russian prison for donating $52 to a Ukraine charity, is returning to America after being wrongfully detained.

Karelina deplaned at 11:03 p.m. at Joint Base Andrews and hugged her fiancé, Chris van Heerden. Karelina — a 33-year-old ballet dancer — was serving a 12-year prison sentence in a penal colony, having ...

so happy to get home," she said in a video posted on X by Trump deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka overnight upon her landing back in the U.S. Karelina -- a 33-year-old ballet dancer -- was ...

Russian-American amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina has been released in a prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington, after spending more than a year in a Russian prison on charges of funding ...