Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy who nuzzled up to the National Rifle Association before the 2016 election, has begun cooperating with federal prosecutors after agreeing to a plea deal in recent ...

Federal prosecutors are backtracking on their allegation that a Russian woman accused of working as a secret agent offered to trade sex for access, according to a Justice Department court filing.

A federal magistrate judge ordered Wednesday that a Russian woman charged with being a Russian agent in the United States must be jailed ahead of her trial after prosecutors said she was a flight risk ...

Federal prosecutors have backed away from a salacious claim that Maria Butina, a Washington woman arrested for allegedly acting as a covert agent of the Russian government, had used sex to gain access ...

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina faces sentencing in Washington Friday over her open effort to build a network of high-level Republican contacts via ties to the NRA gun lobby. While prosecutors have ...

In a quivering voice, Maria Butina begged for leniency Friday as she awaited sentencing on charges of being a secret agent for Russia. She cast herself as an innocent caught up in a massive ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Maria Butina, the Russian who pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent, rejects the idea that she was ...

MOSCOW -- Russian Embassy officials planned Thursday to meet with a Siberian gun-rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States, as Moscow blasted the arrest as ...

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Maria Butina says this is all a big misunderstanding. Was she part of the vast Russian government effort to influence politics within the United States? "Absolutely not," she said. The Russian woman ...