Who is Maria Butina, the gun activist and student charged with spying for Russia?
To some she was the flame-haired Russian face of their country’s gun lobby. To others she was a journalist. Some saw her as a mere student. But to the US government, she was a suspected spy. , appearing in court on Wednesday in Washington DC. Butina’s lawyers acknowledge that she has been intensively questioned by the Senate intelligence committee, but insist that she is just a student. Yet she has been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2015./ Born in Barnaul, in Siberia, to an engineer mother and entrepreneur father, she was interested in ...
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