Russian Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova 'knowingly' smuggled illicit items to US: feds
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Federal authorities said Harvard's Kseniia Petrova "knowingly broke the law" amid their ongoing push to deport the Russian scientist. Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at on Feb. 16 as she returned from a trip to Paris. Her attorney, Gregory Romanovsky, told Fox News that Petrova was bringing back frog embryos at the request of a professor at a French lab with which the Ivy League university was collaborating. According to Romanovsky, the sample was picked up in Paris and was supposed to...
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