Maria Butina
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Maria Valerievna Butina is a Russian politician, political activist, journalist, and former entrepreneur who was convicted in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the Unite
Butina in 2025
Butina in 2014
Butina presents her Prison diary at the 22 Moscow International Fair Non/fiction (March 2021)
State Duma
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The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, with the upper house being the Federation Council. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993.
Maria Butina
…her sentence. She was released and deported back to Russia in October 2019. She publicly denied being a Russian spy. In 2021, she was elected to the State Duma as a member of United Russia. Butina was born on 10 November 1988, in the Siberian city of Barnaul, in Altai Krai, about 210 miles (340 km) east of the…
Building of Council of Labor and Defense, Moscow
Nine members of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma in March 1917. From left to right: Seated: V. N. Lvov, V. A. Rzhevsky, S. I. Shidlovsky, and M. V. Rodzianko (Chairman); Standing: V. V. Shulgin, B. A. Engelhardt, A. F. Kerensky, and M. A. Karaulov.
7th State Duma
Vyacheslav Volodin with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the State Duma, 21 June 2018