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World● Low2h ago · Nov 5, 2026, 3:39 PM

US court drops criminal case against Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova, accused of smuggling frog embryos

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Meduza [en] · North America

A federal judge in the United States has dismissed the criminal case against Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist who worked at Harvard Medical School.

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