Maria Butina wants to have for the Russian-American rapprochement is involved. But U.S. authorities accuse her of illegal activities. Now you should have a part of confession.
The news came a few hours after the Meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on may 16. July in Helsinki: Because of suspected conspiratorial activities, you have taken Russian Maria Butina in Washington. You have tried to as an “agent of the Russian government” to establish contacts with U.S. citizens and to infiltrate political groups, the U.S. Department of justice. The 30 is spoken-Year-old guilty, they face a year imprisonment.
First of all, the best Butina rode all the allegations. Her father denied Russian media reports of an allegedly upcoming confession. It is now apparently. U.S. media reports, Butina admitted in Federal court in Washington to have between 2015 up to her arrest in July 2017, under the guidance of a Moscow government representative in the United States operates. In return for the guilty plea a reduced sentence was in prospect.
Putin: “Poor Girl”
So far, the case proposed in Russia so far does not have high political waves. President Putin expressed this Tuesday for the first Time ever – a few hours before the beginning of the court session in the United States, he called Butina “a poor girl”, was outraged by the threat of a high penalty, and said that Russian secret services had informed him, on demand, to have to know anything about you.
In the months before, there had been protests from the Russian foreign Ministry, Butina is a “political prisoner”. Moscow protested against allegedly particularly harsh conditions of detention. Their lawyers, according to you, has been for a few weeks in solitary confinement.
Contacts on various levels
The American media is Maria Butina, not only since their arrest known. In their research about the alleged Russia-contacts of the election campaign team of Donald trump’s journalists were pushed quickly to Butina. It wasn’t hard, because they openly acted and reported in social networks in detail about their activities – for example, about their participation in the traditional prayer Breakfast with the newly elected President of the Trump at the beginning of February 2017 in Washington, where she was a member of a “16-member Russian Delegation”.
In the social network VKontakte, the Russian Facebook counterpart, wrote Butina, it is important, contacts, Butina speaks of “threads” to develop between the U.S. and Russia on different levels, whether it’s politics, Faith, Business, or civil society. It was necessary to get out of the “crisis” deepened by “penalties and mutual Propaganda” to come out. “It is important to support the Trump morally,” said Butina your Vision.
Signing of the court process against Maria Butina in Washington
With arms of love to the heart of the Republicans
Butina comes from a Siberian province, city, and studied political science and was first with furniture. At the age of 22, she moved to Moscow and founded the organization “The right to bear arms”, a lobby structure in a country, in the arms of love big but gun ownership is severely restricted. In addition, Butina engaged in the Pro-Kremlin party “United Russia” and the assistant of an influence has a rich politician. His Name: Alexander Torshin, until Recently, Deputy head of the Russian Central Bank and a former member of the Federation Council, so to say, of the countries chamber of the Russian Parliament.
Together with Butina Torshin, the American media was able to make reports of contacts with the powerful U.S. gun lobby, the NRA, already some years prior to trump’s victory in the presidential election. NRA representatives were received in Moscow, Butina travelled several times to America and got the opportunity at an event, shortly after he had announced his candidacy, Donald Trump on the future relationship with Russia.
Will Butina replaced?
About two years ago, Butina moved in the United States and studied at a University in Washington. The U.S. Department of justice, accuses you, you have to register with a student visa, and without a properly as an “agent”, trying to make a conversation channel between the Russian government and leading U.S. policies. Also, you have to want with your contacts Russian interests prevail, it is construed as a “conspiracy”.
In Russia is now speculating whether it will be replaced, such as in 2010, the Russian secret service agent in the United States, Anna Chapman. The Moscow newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” reported in late September about the alleged desire of Russia, Butina and two more in the United States condemned the Russians against the Ukrainian film Director Oleg Sentsov to be replaced. Staff of the Russian Federation from sitting in Russia for a 20-year sentence for allegedly planned terrorist attacks in Crimea. Confirmed Moscow has not alleged exchange request so far.