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Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport

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Kseniia Petrova , a Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School , has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement , according to her friends and colleagues.

Petrova 's boss, Leon Peshkin , said in an interview on Thursday that the researcher had good reason to fear being returned to Russia because she had publicly protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its first days , called for the impeachment of Vladimir Putin , the Russian president.

She managed to flee to the former Soviet republic of Georgia and then to the United States , to continue her research on genomes.