Russia launches terrorism-related case against London councilor

Ksenia Maximova is associated with a group financed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and has lobbied British officials for tougher anti-Russia policies The Russian authorities have announced a terrorism-related criminal case against a Russian-British woman who serves as a councilor in the London borough of Ealing.Moscow has accused Ksenia Maximova of lobbying the British government to advance an anti-Russian government agenda, potentially in coordination with British Intelligence services and collaborating with a London law firm run by Ukrainian-British citizens allegedly on behalf of Kiev.Maximova is associated with the Russian Anti-War Committee, backed by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and is an active participant in a network of groups based in the West that seeks to overthrow the Russian government and fracture the country by promoting Western military support for Ukraine, among other things.Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Monday that it opened a criminal case against her over alleged participation in an organization designated as ‘terrorist’ under Russian law.As director of the Russian Democratic Society UK (RDS), which was designated as an ‘undesirable org...