1. How the G.O.P. Gave Maria Butina Her Ultimate Cover - Vanity Fair
Jul 25, 2018 · Butina's cell phone case was emblazoned with a famous photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin riding shirtless on a horse. She would buy ...
Never underestimate the right’s ability to overlook the politics of pro-Russian activists as long as they love guns.
2. Maria Butina's Kremlin handler told her she upstaged Anna Chapman
Jul 18, 2018 · Red-haired Russian gun activist Maria Butina had her bags packed and was deemed a flight risk when feds snatched her, new federal court filings show.
Court documents in Washington D.C. alleged that Maria Butina, 29, was in communication with Russian officials who compared her to Chapman, the best-known Kremlin 'sleeper' spies.
3. Foreign agent Maria Butina blames her prosecution on racism against ...
Nov 2, 2019 · Maria Butina has broken her silence after finishing her prison term on a charge of conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia.
Speaking with 60 Minutes for an interview set to air on Sunday night, 30-year-old Butina said her actions have been unfairly characterized by the U.S. government.
4. Russian Maria Butina gets 18 months for being Kremlin agent
Apr 26, 2019 · I had done 'Charlie's Angels,' and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a quivering voice, Maria Butina begged for leniency Friday as she awaited sentencing on charges of being a secret agent for Russia. She cast herself as an innocent caught up in a massive geopolitical power game.
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6. Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in US
Apr 27, 2019 · She had admitted one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without registering - a so-called "espionage-lite" charge ...
Putin calls conviction 'arbitrary'; Russian foreign ministry terms charges 'totally invented and fabricated'
7. Russian Official Says Alleged Spy Maria Butina 'Upstaged Anna ...
Jul 19, 2018 · That's because there have been two women like that: Anna Chapman in 2010, and now, accused spy Maria Butina. Butina came to the U.S. as a grad ...
This new redheaded operative was sliding into the DMs of Russian officials.
8. Putin calls U.S. treatment of admitted agent Butina an outrage
Apr 27, 2019 · Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday made his first comments on a U.S. court sentencing admitted Russian foreign agent Maria Butina ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday made his first comments on a U.S. court sentencing admitted Russian foreign agent Maria Butina to 18 months in prison, calling her treatment a travesty of justice. Butina was sentenced on Friday after the Siberia native, her voice breaking with emotion, begged a judge for mercy and expressed remorse for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence U.S. conservative activists and Republicans. Speaking in Beijing, Putin said the sentence looked like an attempt by U.S. law enforcement and judicial officials to save face.
9. Russia-NRA Arrest: This Is as Close as It Gets to Collusion
Jul 16, 2018 · In a sworn affidavit, FBI agent Kevin Helson said Maria Butina worked to set up “back channel” communications between Americans and the Kremlin.
For all the indictments, arrests, and guilty pleas in the far-flung investigation into Russian influence, none has come close to alleging collusion. Until Maria Butina was nabbed.
10. [PDF] report_volume5.pdf - Senate Intelligence Committee
Aug 18, 2020 · ... Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin ... bikini, who was large, performing sex acts on him while he was singing. Interesting, because I ...