Why was Kseniia Petrova detained? A U.S. customs officer initially stamped Petrova's passport, affirming her J-1 scholar visa when she landed at Boston's Logan International Airport in February.

Kseniia Petrova, 31, a Harvard scientist detained on February 16, 2025, for failing to declare scientific samples in her luggage.© GoFundMe ...

Kseniia Petrova, 31, a Russian-born Harvard scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States, was indicted on additional charges.

This undated photo provided by Polina Pugacheva in April 2025 shows Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist who was a researcher at Harvard University. Credit: AP/Polina Pugacheva ...

The Trump administration has levied federal smuggling charges against Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova as the Russian national fights for her freedom from immigration detention. Prosecutors filed ...

(CNN) — A US district court judge in Vermont ruled that Kseniia Petrova, the Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States, could ...

Colleagues and academics also testified on Kseniia Petrova's behalf, saying she is doing valuable research to advance cures for cancer. “It is excellent science,” Michael West, a scientist and ...

Kseniia Petrova is a research scientist at Harvard Medical School who was detained by ICE on February 16 for not properly declaring frog embryo samples, which she was bringing back to her lab ...

An immigration judge has found the U.S. government’s initial deportation case against Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born Harvard scientist held in ICE detention, to be legally deficient, her ...

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Kseniia Petrova, 30, was already facing deportation. She was charged Wednesday with smuggling goods into the United States, shortly after a federal district court judge had set a hearing on her ...