Maria Butina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maria Butina

Russian activist, alleged agent

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1988

Place of Birth: Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia

Profession: entrepreneur, spy

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Mariia Valeryevna Butina (Russian: ????´? ????´?????? ??´????, sometimes transliterated as Maria Butina or Mariya Butina; born November 10, 1988) is a Russian who pled guilty to conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the United States.Beginning in 2011, she worked as an assistant for Aleksandr Torshin, a former member of the Federation Council, a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, and a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia.
In this role, she worked to infiltrate conservative groups in the US, including the National Rifle Association, as part of an effort to promote Russian interests in the 2016 United States presidential election.
In April 2018, Butina told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Konstantin Nikolaev, a Russian billionaire, provided funding for her gun-rights group.In July 2018, while residing in Washington, D.C., Butina was arrested by the FBI and charged with acting as an agent of the Russian Federation "without prior notification to the Attorney General." In December 2018, she pled guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent of the Russian state under 18 U.S.C.
§951.On April 26, 2019, a federal judge sentenced her to 18 months in prison.
She served more than 15 months in Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution and was released on October 25, 2019.
She was deported back to Russia.