WASHINGTON (AP) — 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...

Admitted Russian agent Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday after the Siberia native, her voice breaking with emotion, begged a judge for mercy and expressed remorse for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights grou…

Russian agent Maria Butina was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy against the U.S.

Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian gun rights activist who pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The 30-year-old American University graduate student pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign official.

The pro-gun, alleged Russian agent is going to jail for 18 months.

Russian woman Maria Butina admitted to being a secret agent for the Kremlin has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Maria Butina tells court her parents discovered her arrest on the morning news in a Siberian village.

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

The Russian Foreign Ministry suggested a social media “flash mob” to show support for Maria Butina.

Who is Maria Butina? Here's everything you need to know about the 29-year-old gun rights activist and alleged Russian spy #ticocnews (Source: Bloomberg)

Photos emerge of Butina with Sergey Kislyak, whose contacts with Trump advisers have raised conserns The woman charged with spying for Moscow in the US met previously with the former Russian ambassador to Washington whose contacts with Trump advisers have rai…

Prosecutors say Maria Butina offered sex to gain influence.

Julia Ioffe interviewed NRA-linked Russian agent, Marina Butina in 2012 before Butina moved to the United States. Ioffe joins Katy Tur to share her insights into Butina, after she was indicted this week.

Moscow is using social media to drum up support for the latest Russian accused of espionage.

The Russian foreign ministry announced a #FreeMariaButina campaign Thursday to win freedom for a Russian woman arrested and charged in the U.S. with illegally acting as an agent of the Russian government.

Maria Butina is accused of being a Russian spy and trading sex for influence.

The list of allegations against Maria Butina reads like a plot from an international crime thriller. The 29-year-old Russian is accused of acting as a foreign agent in the United States and allegedly using sex and deception to build her network of influential…

It’s hard to tell how much of the story 29-year-old Maria Butina told Americans about herself for years is real. But it's clear that her persona — a scrappy girl from Siberia fighting for Russian gun

Consular officials will meet with Maria Butina for the first time since her Sunday arrest, and will provide her ‘all necessary help’

The Russian embassy said in a Facebook post that consular officials will meet with Butina and will provide her "all necessary help"

Maria Butina manipulated US conservatives, court hears … Skripal suspects ‘identified’ … Boris Johnson pans Chequers plan … and how the rich spend it

Today, a federal magistrate ordered Maria Butina, a Russian national suspected of being a covert Russian agent, to be held without bail.

Ms. Butina was arrested over the weekend in Washington and was in contact with Russian intelligence, prosecutors said.

Ms. Butina was arrested over the weekend in Washington and was in contact with Russian intelligence, prosecutors said.

RT @OkeyMor57: @NNJWISEGUY @Yosemit55118528 @Acyn A convicted Russian spy, Maria Butina slept her way through the leadership of the GOP and…

RT @emitchelbrown: @dutchdalton992 @jerrydoby_ @OccupyDemocrats Ok dude https://t.co/NeJgBkDgx3

RT @VelvetBlade: @60MinutesAUS @open_sanctions @Billbrowder One of Russian spy Maria Butina’s sex targets claims to have kompromat on Speci…

RT @VelvetBlade: @60MinutesAUS @open_sanctions @Billbrowder One of Russian spy Maria Butina’s sex targets claims to have kompromat on Speci…

RT @VelvetBlade: Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault & is now a resident of Russia hanging with Russian spy, Maria Butina.

RT @VelvetBlade: @RickSydney @LifeIndiscreet Don't forget... A month before the U.S. presidential election, Butina and Torshin had helped…

RT @VelvetBlade: In light of this heightened exposure of deep cover Russian agents penetrating the halls of power, let’s look at the revela…

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @Out5p0ken: Hey remember when Trump let prisoner Maria Butina go home to Russia and not swapping her for Paul Whelan? It’s almost as if…

RT @TigerWieseJones: Remember this? July23, 2018 "The Son of the oligarch who funded Maria Butina's activities for Putin and the Russian g…

RT @TigerWieseJones: Remember this? July23, 2018 "The Son of the oligarch who funded Maria Butina's activities for Putin and the Russian g…

RT @TigerWieseJones: Remember this? July23, 2018 "The Son of the oligarch who funded Maria Butina's activities for Putin and the Russian g…

RT @TigerWieseJones: Remember this? July23, 2018 "The Son of the oligarch who funded Maria Butina's activities for Putin and the Russian g…

Remember this? July23, 2018 "The Son of the oligarch who funded Maria Butina's activities for Putin and the Russian government, worked in the Trump campaign."

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @trcfwtt: Retweet if you’d still like to know why Moscow Marsha had convicted Russian spy Maria Butina’s mob boss monitoring elections i…

RT @SpriterTeam: "The Pentagon is a bottomless pit that sucks in money." Former Biden aide Tara Reid, in an interview with Maria Butina, c…

RT @DempseyTwo: Perhaps ASOG might do that. Take a look at this allegation made by Dominion against Ramsland in Dominions lawsuit against…

RT @mikedreams4: I remember well who Maria Butina was. She was a Russian operative spreading the lies, the GOP wanted to hear. She was tell…

RT @mikedreams4: I remember well who Maria Butina was. She was a Russian operative spreading the lies, the GOP wanted to hear. She was tell…

RT @mikedreams4: I remember well who Maria Butina was. She was a Russian operative spreading the lies, the GOP wanted to hear. She was tell…

RT @mikedreams4: I remember well who Maria Butina was. She was a Russian operative spreading the lies, the GOP wanted to hear. She was tell…

I remember well who Maria Butina was. She was a Russian operative spreading the lies, the GOP wanted to hear. She was telling them the US could be a WHITE, Religious nation like Russia. Where old white rich men could rule the nation. All we had to do...was destroy our Democracy! https://t.co/cglsPcsM4e

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @JohnAda32739360: Read "Trump-loving ex-CEO claims to have 'naughty' evidence against Jack Smith' on SmartNews: this sounds like a guy w…

Read "Trump-loving ex-CEO claims to have 'naughty' evidence against Jack Smith' on SmartNews: this sounds like a guy we can certainly believe: Byrne, who resigned from Overstock in 2019 over his relationship with suspected Russian spy Maria Butina, https://t.co/XNJTmU7ePl

You released a document you got from a SCIF. If I did that, I would be tried for Espionage. You are a Kleptocrat. You won’t get away with mishandling Secrets & neither will Trump. By the way, did you take $$$ from Russian spy Maria Butina? Naughty. #reversethedystopia https://t.co/3l9lttsyiI https://t.co/qgszWsInbR

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @anthony7andrews: @PatrickByrne Do you still send Maria a Butina money?

RT @TheActor_movie: Bill Barr committed crimes for trump as trump’s AG - Why did he release Putin KGB agent Maria Butina from US prison ?…

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA

RT @ennui365: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian spy Maria Butina... https://t.co/LXyeeCj1UA