Daily Mail: Russian secret agent Maria Butina is sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting she covertly gathered intelligence on the NRA
* Russian secret agent Maria Butina has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
* She has been jailed since her July 2018 arrest and will get credit for time served
* Butina will be deported to Russia after she completes her sentence
* She admitted she covertly gathered intelligence on the National Rifle Association and other groups at the direction of a former Russian lawmaker
* Russia accused the US of forcing Butina to falsely confess to 'ridiculous charges'
A Russian woman who admitted to being a secret agent for the Kremlin has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Maria Butina has been jailed since her July 2018 arrest and will get credit for time served.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan also ordered Butina deported after she completes her sentence.
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Update #1: Russian agent Butina sentenced to 18 months (The Hill)
Update #2: Russian Maria Butina gets 18 months for being Kremlin agent (AP)
WNU Editor: Russian President Putin has responded to this sentence .... Putin calls U.S. treatment of admitted agent Butina an outrage (Reuters). More here .... US prison sentence for Butina a ‘travesty of justice’ – Putin (RT). What's my take. A very harsh sentence. She was in the U.S. on a student visa, and she did what most foreign students do .... get to know the country, learn how the political and social system works, and to make friends. What happened to her can be applied by other countries who have American students in their country doing the same thing.
