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- READ: From hormone treatment to punishment in solitary, Maria Butina’s book lays bare her US prison horror and what she saw there
In a freshly-published book, Maria Butina has documented her time inside the American prison system, where she spent more than a year after being dubbed a foreign agent acting on behalf of Moscow’s ‘influence campaign.’Nov 26, 2020 19:15Russia & Former Soviet Union - ‘I was completely exhausted emotionally after everything I’d been through’: Maria Butina recalls the nightmare of jail time in USTwo years ago a Russian woman was arrested in the US and portrayed as a honeypot spy by the ‘Russiagate’ obsessed media. Now, Maria Butina recalls how she found herself trapped in the hell of the American penal system.Jul 15, 2020 15:08Russia & Former Soviet Union
- ‘You can save lives!’ Butina, prisoners’ relatives ask UN to help Russians jailed abroad get furloughs amid Covid-19Maria Butina, a Russian activist once imprisoned in the US, has petitioned the UN with a desperate plea from relatives of Russians jailed in Europe and the US, who say furlough is the only chance their loved ones have to survive.Apr 27, 2020 12:24World News
- Butina to help Russians ‘in difficult situations’ abroad as part of new job at ombudsman’s officeLess than a month after her return to Russia from the US, where she spent over a year behind bars, Maria Butina has joined the Russian ombudsman's office and will focus on helping compatriots who run into trouble abroad.Nov 23, 2019 02:31Russia & Former Soviet Union
- ‘My hair color was proof of guilt’: Maria Butina talks her arrest, the NRA, and Senate testimony (FULL INTERVIEW)Accused of spying and jailed in the US, Russian student and gun rights activist Maria Butina has told RT about her ordeal, from staring down a dozen armed FBI agents at her door to how Hollywood cliches served as proof of guilt.Oct 27, 2019 08:46World News
- 'Guard said he’d ‘f**k each and every one of us’ – released gun activist Butina recalls humiliation in US prisonThe US penal system takes lives away from female inmates and turns them into constantly humiliated slaves, Maria Butina, who returned to Russia after spending more than a year in an American prison, said.Oct 26, 2019 21:32World News
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