Maria Butina is asking to serve no additional prison time when she is sentenced April 26.
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Maria Butina asks to be released from jail and sent back to Russia in new filingMaria Butina has asked a federal judge to release her from prison and send her home to Russia after she spent nine months in jail since her arrest for acting as a foreign agent of the Russian government.
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Prosecutors request 18-month prison sentence for Russian agent Maria ButinaButina sought to cultivate ties with the National Rifle Association and even a presidential candidate, who is unnamed in the filing, in a bid to establish a communications backchannel between the Russian government
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Admitted Russian agent Butina asks U.S. court to be lenientMaria Butina, who has admitted to working as a Russian agent to infiltrate an in...
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US prosecutors seek 18-month term for Russian ButinaUS prosecutors are seeking an 18-month jail sentence for a Russian gun-rights activist who pled guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent by infiltrating conservative American groups on behalf of her government. Maria Butina, who is 30, has cooperated with prosecutors since pleading guilty in December
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Prosecutors seek 18-month sentence for Maria Butina in Russian plot to forge ties to U.S. conservative groupsRussian gun-activist pleaded guilty in plan to gain access to the NRA, U.S. conservative circles
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Maria Butina's lawyers ask for leniency ahead of sentencingHer defense paints the portrait of a “compassionate civil activist”—the government says she was a threat to national security.
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Feds ask for 18-month sentence in Russian agent caseWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. prosecutors say a Russian gun-rights activist who admitted being a secret agent for the Kremlin should serve an 18-month prison sentence. The request came in a sentencing memo filed late Friday in Maria Butina's case. Prosecutors say Butina was 'not a spy in the traditional sense' and wasn't formally trained as an intelligence officer. Instead, they say she tried to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups as Donald Trump rose to power.
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Ballet prepares kids in Peru for a future beyond their poor communitiesFormer National Ballet of Peru dancer Maria del Carmen Silva's mission goes beyond teaching her students how to plié or dance to Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers.”
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