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Follow RT for news and updates on Maria Butina, who is a political activist, founder of gun rights group ‘Right to Bear Arms’, and alleged Russian agent based in the US. Visit RT.com to find information and news on the group established by Maria Butina. Get the news and stories on Maria Butina’s case. While residing in Washington DC, Maria Butina was arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent. Moreover, before these allegations, Maria Butina was under investigation for potential involvement in Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 US election. Follow RT for all the other charges against Maria Butina. While testifying in court, Butina denied all of them. Russian employees of the Russian Embassy are set to visit Maria Butina in the US. Don’t miss further developments in the Butina case.
- Butina may have pleaded guilty under ‘pressure’ & in order to get back home – ex-state senator to RT
The US may have used months of solitary confinement to “pressure” jailed Russian gun activist Maria Butina into pleading guilty, international law attorney and former Pennsylvania State Senator Bruce Marks told RT.Dec 16, 2018 11:05USA News - Months of torture-like conditions made Butina plead guilty to get home sooner – LavrovRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has explained why he thinks gun activist Maria Butina, jailed in the US, has made a deal with prosecutors: she wants to escape the torture-like conditions she is being kept in.Dec 14, 2018 12:47World News
- Tormented into a guilty plea? Experts denounce US ‘miscarriage of justice’ in Butina caseMaria Butina’s only crime is that she is Russian, legal analysts told RT, attacking the US justice system for keeping her in solitary confinement until she admitted guilt to at least one of the many charges brought against her.Dec 14, 2018 03:01World News
- Maria Butina pleads guilty to US charge of conspiring to act as foreign agentMaria Butina, the Russian woman arrested in July and accused of acting as a foreign agent within the United States has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.Dec 13, 2018 16:24World News
- ‘Foreign agent’ Butina has no ties to Russian intel, was jailed for nothing – PutinMaria Butina, a Russian national arrested in the US on charges of failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, has no ties to Russian intelligence services and the whole case against her was thin, President Vladimir Putin has said.Dec 11, 2018 22:55World News
- Consular visits as proof of guilt? Russian Embassy slams Butina prosecutors & neo-McCarthyismThe Russian embassy has called “absurd” US claims that frequent visits of its officials to jailed gun activist Maria Butina mean she is a valuable Kremlin asset. The embassy says it treats all Russian citizens like that.Sep 11, 2018 04:14USA News
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