FILE PHOTO: A portrait of Ksenia Karelina (top centre) with her former in-laws and ex-husband in Maryland, U.S, December 13, 2015. Eleonora Srebroski /Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) -A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason on Thursday after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army.
Karelina, who was born in Russia but had built a new life as an aesthetician at a Los Angeles spa after immigrating to the United States over a decade ago, faces a sentence of 12 years to life in prison if found guilty.
