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- Russian Communists demand election ban for candidate Butina over alleged foreign funding, two years after she was deported from US
Russia’s Communist Party has demanded that RT TV host Maria Butina be banned from running in the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections because of allegations that she owns foreign shares and once received “foreign funding.”Aug 18, 2021 15:14Russia & Former Soviet Union - Maria Butina, once jailed in US, visits Navalny’s prison & calls it 'exemplary,' but allies of Russian opposition figure cry foulThe facility housing Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, described by one former convict as “inhumane” and “real hell,” is more like a “scout camp” than a jail. That’s according to Maria Butina, a former prisoner herself.Apr 2, 2021 15:41Russia & Former Soviet Union
- Maria Butina & Kirill Vyshinsky stage protest outside Latvian embassy, over persecution of journalists working with Russian mediaJournalists Kirill Vyshinsky and Maria Butina, both victims of foreign anti-Russia sentiment in the past, have staged a protest outside Latvia’s embassy, showing their support for journalists being persecuted by the Baltic state.Jan 26, 2021 13:11Russia & Former Soviet Union
- READ: From hormone treatment to punishment in solitary, Maria Butina’s book lays bare her US prison horror and what she saw thereIn 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
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