Former ballerina Ksenia Karelina was released from Russia after more than a year in custody. Here’s how her friends in Los ...

When she arrived in Southern California in 2017, Karelina worked as a receptionist at Ciel Spa at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills and obtained her U.S. citizenship in July 2021, according to a ...

Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian dual national, was supposed to spend the next 12 years of her life behind bars after being convicted of treason last year and branded an ‘American spy’. The 34-year-old ...

At first, she pursued dance as a ballerina, but later moved from Baltimore to Los Angeles, where she took on a job as a receptionist at the luxury Ciel Spa at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.