Maria Butina, a woman pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to a single conspiracy charge in a deal with prosecutors and admitted to working with a top Russian official to infiltrate a powerful gun rights group and make inroads with American conservative activists and the Republican Party as an agent for Moscow, The Washington Post reported.
112.ua: Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleads guilty to conspiracy against US
An editor looks at the Twitter feed of the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the US with a post about the arrest of Russian woman Mariia Butina in Hollywood, California, on July 16, 2018.
