Russian-American Loses Appeal Over $51 Ukraine Donation, Faces 12 Years
Russian-American Loses Appeal Over $51 Ukraine Donation, Faces 12 Years
A Russian court in Yekaterinburg has upheld the 12-year prison sentence handed down in August to dual U.S.-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina for treason after she was found guilty of transferring $51 to a Ukrainian aid charity in early 2022.
This is authoritarianism, being arrested for a measly donation. For anyone still confused.
I thought it was 51 million dollars, but it's just 51$ ! What a reason to get thrown into jail for 12 years.
51! = $1,551,118,753,287,382,280,224,243,016,469,303,211,063,259,720,016,986,112,000,000,000,000
That’s a pretty big donation even if it were in pesos.
I knew someone would think about commenting this. Glad to see someone actually did 🤣
$51 USD is like 1% of Russia's GDP
As if they need a reason.
Oh no! Shithole country doing shit things, who woulda thunk it. Shoulda stayed out of the shitty country if she wanted to avoid shitty things. Seems pretty simple. It may not be fair but it sure as shit ain't sad. Plenty of dead Ukranians don't get to live at all.
*tries to support Ukrainians 2 days after war starts, gets arrested and sent to jail*
@RedditWanderer "shouldn't have been in Russia, lol"
Shouldn't have been in Russia 2 years l later.
She was arrested in Yekaterinburg in January on suspicion of petty hooliganism.
On February 7, however, treason charges were filed against her after investigators learned that on the second day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she had transferred $51 to Razom, a Ukrainian aid group that helps civilians affected by the war.
Yeah it’s so simple to just live wherever you want, especially this magical fantasy land where shitty things don’t happen.