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That Butina just so happened to have affairs with powerful, twice-her-age men who facilitated her ruse was simply the luck of the draw, she insisted. Maria Butina posing with firearms – FBI counter-intelligence agents arrested her on charges she acted as a Kremlin agent.
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They have the biggest lobbying group, and I wanted to learn how they do it,” Butina tells narrator Celia Aniskovich. In the first two episodes, previewed by The Post, Butina, 32, casts herself as a firearm loving peacemaker - trying to learn from the National Rifle Association and conservatives to promote gun rights in the Motherland, and build a “relationship between two countries loved.” Russian spy visits jailed opposition leader Navalny in prison in propaganda stuntĮx-Treasury staffer pleads guilty to leaking secretsĪdmitted Russian agent Maria Butina is claiming she wasn’t a spy at all - just a gun-loving student with a “weakness” for smart and powerful men.īutina, who served 15 months behind bars for breaching conservative circles to influence US Republican politics, was interviewed from a Virginia jail for a six-part Wondery series, “Spy Affair,” set to be released Tuesday. Ex-spy Maria Butina among Russians hit with latest US sanctions over warĮx-spy Maria Butina claims Russia is ‘not bombing civilians’