Prosecutors move to drop charges against scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos
Topics: Russia & Ukraine
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- The Hill reports: “The Trump administration has moved to drop charges against a Harvard University researcher accused of illegally smuggling frog embryos into the United States. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scien…”
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