Distressing news: Catherine Serou, an American studying in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, has been missing since Tuesday. The last sign of life was a text message to her mother in the US: "In a car with a stranger. I hope I'm not being abducted." 
After serving a tour in Afghanistan as a Marine and earning 2 degrees at UC Davis, US citizen Catherine Serou has gone missing near the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, where she came to study half a year before the pandemic. npr.org/2021/06/18/100…
Update: Russian federal investigators say Catherine Serou has been found dead; suspect arrested. My deepest condolences to her family, especially to her mother Beccy Serou, who hadn't given up hope when I spoke to her Friday. sledcom.ru/news/item/1584…
Heartbreaking to watch this video of Catherine Serou speaking (and laughing) in Russian and English with a local Nizhny Novgorod news site last year. At a time of terrible bilateral relations, people like Catherine are the best American ambassadors.
The story of Catherine Serou has moved me the most since I started covering Russia for NPR 5 years ago—a young American coming to Russia with high hopes and her mother Beccy's fortitude as darkness closed in, thousands of miles away. npr.org/2021/06/19/100…
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