Maria Butina, the Russian operative who used her activism with the National Rifle Association to illegally infiltrate U.S. conservative political circles, was released from a federal prison in ...

CNN — A federal judge sentenced Russia national Maria Butina to 18 months in prison on Friday, after she pleaded guilty to trying to infiltrate conservative political circles and promote Russian ...

Maria Butina says this is all a big misunderstanding. Was she part of the vast Russian government effort to influence politics within the United States? "Absolutely not," she said. The Russian woman ...

The Russian woman convicted in the United States of being a Russian agent returned to Moscow on Saturday and declared that she has no desire to go back to America. Maria Butina was deported Friday by ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian woman convicted in the United States of being a Russian agent returned to Moscow on Saturday and declared that she has no desire to go back to America. Maria Butina was ...

The woman, Maria Butina, carried out her campaign through a series of deceptions that began in 2014, if not earlier, prosecutors said. p pulse Follow WASHINGTON — For four years, a Russian accused of ...

Maria Butina, the 30-year-old Russian woman accused of exerting “covert influence” while in the U.S., will plead guilty to conspiracy in a deal with prosecutors, according to ABC. As part of her plea ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Maria Butina, the Russian who pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent, rejects the idea that she was ...

The woman, Maria Butina, carried out her campaign through a series of deceptions that began in 2014, if not earlier, prosecutors said. The woman, Maria Butina, carried out her campaign through a ...