State Duma deputy Maria Butina thanked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for placing the “US Attorney, deputy and district judge” involved in her case on the list banning her from entering Russian territory.
“The list includes U.S. Attorney General Eric Kinnerson, Deputy Attorney General William McKee, and District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was responsible for sentencing me,” he said.
“I sincerely thank the State Department for not ignoring these important people who prosecuted me, who artificially created Maria Butina’s case, accused me of individual conspiracy, and attempted to act like a foreign agent. . To hunt down the Russians, “he. said.
“They made me the first victim of American rosaceaphobia with a real prison sentence. Again, I thank the State Department for defending us, ”he added.
“I want to thank our President Vladimir Putin for joining me in this difficult moment and for showing the world that we do not neglect our people,” he said.
Butina was arrested in July 2018 and sentenced to 18 months in prison for “conspiracy to act as a foreign agent illegally” in the United States, and was released and deported to Russia at the end of October 2019.
The Russian Foreign Ministry previously reported that one in 963 U.S. citizens had been banned from entering Russia, including U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, top U.S. officials and politicians, some of whom were on the “stop list”. on 15 March. .publishes the list. and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chief of Staff Mark Milley.
Source: “Sputnik”
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