In a quivering voice, Maria Butina begged for leniency Friday as she awaited sentencing on charges of being a secret agent for Russia. She cast herself as an innocent caught up in a massive ...

Maria Butina, convicted of acting as an agent for a foreign state in the United States, returned Saturday to her native Russia and insisted that she was pressured to plead guilty in the case. Maria ...

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 ...

Butina cultivated connections with prominent U.S. conservatives. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a clandestine foreign agent. Now she's... Maria Butina's prison term has ended. The Russian ...

It is reported that Russia’s agency for international humanitarian cooperation has sent her books to Russian centers of culture in 20 countries and the Russian foreign ministry has requested more than ...

Maria Butina, the red-headed gun advocate from Russian who built a network of high-level Republican contacts before being arrested for spying, is expected to return to her country after her Friday ...

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in prison on conspiracy charge A federal judge sentenced Russia national Maria Butina to 18 months in prison on Friday, after she pleaded ...

Maria Butina, the only Russian arrested and convicted in the three-year investigation of Moscow's interference in US politics, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday. The leader of a small ...