DOJ drops charges against Russian researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos
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Leah Willingham/AP, FILE
November 04, 2026, 4:39 PM
A federal judge has granted a request from prosecutors to dismiss the criminal case against Kseniia Petrova, the Russian researcher at Harvard University who was detained in 2025 after being accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States.
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