Maria Butina gets job as Russian state TV host

By Caitlin Yilek

Published December 17, 2019 4:10pm ET

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Maria Butina gets job as Russian state TV host — 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 wore a “foreign agent” T-shirt to promote her new gig as a Russian state television host.

Butina, who was not charged with espionage but pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent by infiltrating a gun rights group and cultivating relationships with conservative politicians, was deported in October after an 18-month prison sentence.

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