Allen described herself as “a child of new Russia” and said the country would always be a part of her identity, but she had chosen to cut ties with it based on its recent actions in Ukraine. Standing in front of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York City, Allen burned her Russian passport – which she said was the only copy she had – and planned to auction the video as a nonfungible token (NFT), with the proceeds going to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Allen, who has been in crypto since early 2018, said that the decision to do this was underpinned by her not seeing herself ever going back to Russia under its current government. She was looking to alter the narrative that all Russian civilians support the government’s decision to invade Ukraine, highlighting that she knew some people in her homeland who had been “brainwashed beyond the point of no return.”
Russian National Burns her Passport and Auctioned it as an NFT
