It's not because he's supporting Justin it's because she isn't a Putin fan and she's hated in the Kremlin. Its part of the reason Trump's not a fan because he's been given his Putin notes.
"She studied Russian history and literature at
Harvard University.
[17] During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the
Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv in Ukraine, where she studied
Ukrainian, which she is fluent in.
[19] While there, she worked with journalist
Bill Keller of
The New York Times to document the
Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the
NKVD (the Soviet secret police) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents.
[1] The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the Nazi invasion, adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Stalinist repression.
[1]
While there she attracted the attention of the
KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the
Embassy of Canada in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the
Soviet Union, and organized marches and rallies to attract attention and support from Western countries. On her return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the Soviet Union.
[20] By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021
Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as "a remarkable individual", "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".
[20]"