In New York, a Russian woman was sentenced "for having ties with the FSB"

The Federal Court of the Southern District of New York sentenced 35-year-old Russian Nomma Zarubina to 14 months in prison.

She pleaded guilty to giving false testimony to the FBI about "connections with the FSB," as well as fraud in obtaining US citizenship, Repost reports.

"The defendant lied to the FBI in connection with a sensitive investigation of malicious foreign influence," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

Zarubina was charged in December 2024. She was on bail, but was arrested a year later. The reason was that the woman repeatedly refused to stop contacting the FBI agent, who was supposed to be a witness in her case. After the woman was released on bail, she repeatedly taunted the special agent, harassed and threatened him, the article says.

According to investigators, Zarubina, acting under the pseudonym Alice, allegedly built contacts with journalists, scientists and Russian oppositionists in the United States in order to "identify potential connections for Russian intelligence."

It is reported that after serving her sentence, she will be deported from the United States.