Posted on 07/23/2018 9:28:33 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
A 29-year-old Russian woman accused of working as a covert spy while in the U.S. on a student visa remains behind bars.
Butina is a suspected covert Russian spy. She is a Russian national who was in the U.S. on a student visa, enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C. She received her graduate degree from the university in May.
She's known for her pro-gun activism and founded a Russian gun rights group in Moscow.
The 29-year-old grew up in a modest apartment building in the Siberian city of Barnaul, closer to the Mongolian and Kazakh borders than Moscow.
She developed an interest in high-level politics after she attended a special camp for young political hopefuls run by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, Konstantin Emeshin, founder of the School of Real Politics in Barnaul, told The Associated Press. Butina received her first degree from that school.
Butina was arrested on July 15 on suspicions she was in the U.S. acting as a covert foreign agent for Russia. She is accused of attempting to infiltrate multiple organizations in the U.S. at the direction of an unnamed senior Kremlin official in a years-long campaign.
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I’ve read that the issue of registering as a foreign agent is often not complied with. Sounds like there is legislation proposed that would make it easier to define and enforce. As of now, there is some gray area associated with it.
I think they are trying to turn her as a tool against Trump. Otherwise I think they would release her. Or they may be trying to turn here from Russian agent to supporting the US.
Who knows with these vermin.
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