MOSCOW, October 26.
/TASS/. The plane carrying Russian citizen Maria Butina who was released from a
US prison on Friday has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.
According to the
Flightradar24 website, the plane landed earlier than scheduled.
Maria’s father
Valery, who arrived in Moscow to meet his daughter, was waiting for her at the
airport. About 50 reporters were waiting for Butina as well.
Among those who met
the Russian national was Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Butina, 30, was
arrested in Washington on July 15, 2018, ahead of a meeting between Russian
President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Helsinki. She
was charged with conspiracy to act as a foreign agent in the United States. US
intelligence services argued that the Russian citizen carried out this activity
without being registered as an agent of a foreign state with the Department of
Justice. On April 26, Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Moscow
stated that the charges had been trumped-up and demanded her release from
custody. Butina's sentence ended on Friday, October 25.
Source: ITAR-TASS
26-10-2019
