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Maria Butina celebrated upon return to Moscow

By Caitlin Yilek
Published October 26, 2019 3:15pm ET
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Maria Butina celebrated upon return to Moscow
A journalist presents a bunch of flowers to Russian agent Maria Butina, upon her arrival from the United States at Moscow International Airport Sheremetyevo outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Butina, a gun rights activist who sought to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups and promote Russia's agenda around the time that Donald Trump rose to power, was released Friday from a low-security facility in Florida.

Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to act on behalf of the Russian government as a foreign agent, arrived in Moscow on Saturday after being deported from the United States.

Photos showed Butina, wearing a white turtleneck and navy blue sweats she ordered from Amazon, receiving a warm welcome upon her return to Russia.

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