Russia Arrests Los Angeles Woman for Allegedly Raising Money for Ukraine

The 33-year-old woman is a dual citizen of Russia and the United States.

A police car goes past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images

A Los Angeles resident with U.S. and Russian dual citizenship has been arrested in Russia on charges of treason for raising funds to support Ukraine’s war effort, Russian state media said.

The woman was detained by Russian authorities in Yekaterinburg on the eastern slopes of the Urals, the same Siberian city where Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 on espionage charges.