Russia offers job to Maria Butina, woman convicted by U.S. of being an agent

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS NOVEMBER 18, 2019 / 12:24 PM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO

Russia offers job to Maria Butina, woman convicted by U.S. of being an agent

MOSCOW (Reuters) - In her first public appearance since being deported by U.S. authorities who had jailed her for being a Russian agent, Maria Butina was on Monday offered a job by Moscow to defend Russians imprisoned abroad.

During an event for the media, Russia’s human rights commissioner, Tatyana Moskalkova, offered Butina, 31, a job working for her commission.

“I invite you to work in our group defending compatriots abroad. I’m sure together we’ll be able to do a lot of good for people who’ve ended up in tough situations abroad,” Moskalkova said.

Butina, who flew back to Russia on Oct. 26 after being deported, did not say whether she would accept the offer made at what she called her first public appearance since she was mobbed by wellwishers in front of the media at the airport on her arrival home.

Butina pleaded guilty in December last year to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia by infiltrating a gun rights group and influencing U.S. conservative activists and Republicans, a conviction slammed as ridiculous by Moscow.

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[Vogon_Glory]

1. I'm not one of Marina Butina's fans BUT

I’d grudgingly say she did a bang-up job for the Russian Motherland.

What I think of the American $#!t-clowns who allowed themselves to be played is another matter altogether.