article_snippet.sent: ‘Agent Laura Mary Sumner’ and linked A British university student to a bizarre claim of a revolutionary plot.
article_snippet.sent: The report claimed the Nottingham University academic’s work was ‘important for the plans of the West to create a “colour revolution” in Russia’.
article_snippet.sent: The term describes the overthrow of governments in former Soviet states, such as the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Badcock, 40, is supervising Miss Sumner’s PhD thesis on early Soviet Russia
article_snippet.sent: but there has been no suggestion outside Russian media that either woman is involved in espionage or plans to foment revolution.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Sumner, left, was researching Soviet rule from 1917 to 1921 as part of A British university student PhD under Professor Sarah Badcock of Nottingham University, right, who is acknowledged as one of Britain's leading Russian experts .
article_snippet.sent: Questions have been raised over whether Miss Sumner has fallen victim to a tit-for-tat punishment by Russia.
article_snippet.sent: Action was taken against Miss Sumner Sumner by the Federal Migration Service but sources claimed officers from the FSB, the successor to the feared KGB, were in the courtroom.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Sumner has been to Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod at least twice to carry out research.
highlights_snippet.sent: Laura Mary Sumner was researching Soviet rule from 1917 to 1921 in a library .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Russian media branded Laura Mary Sumner 'a spy' due to Laura Mary Sumner research interests .