Yekaterinburg

Amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, had been in prison in Russia for over a year, after being arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg in early 2024.

Kazakhstan’s flagship airline, Qazaq Air, suspended service on a major route, to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

He moved to Yekaterinburg, then Kursk, and spent three years in Kurgan, a city to the east of the Ural mountains, before he lost his job at the philharmonic orchestra there in 2022.

The court in Yekaterinburg found her guilty of high treason and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

The FSB said Ms Karelina had been detained in Yekaterinburg in February - the same city in which US journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested on charges of espionage on 29 March last year.