00:17‘It’s been a long and painful experience’ – Maria Butina speaks on the plane
Maria Butina, a Russian national convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent in the US, gave an interview to RT and Sputnik on a plane en route to Moscow on Saturday.
"I'm almost home. There is little time, just a few hours left. Thank you very much for your support. I am very much looking forward to the moment when the plane lands and I will be in my homeland. It's been a long and painful experience," said Butina.
She was released from a prison in Tallahassee, Florida on Friday after having served 15 months of an 18-month sentence.
Butina founded the Russian gun rights organisation Right to Bear Arms in 2011 and was involved in the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful gun rights lobby in US politics. She moved to the United States on a student visa in 2016 and was arrested in July 2018 on charges of being an unregistered foreign agent of the Russian Federation, for which she was convicted in April 2019.
00:17Mandatory courtesy to RT and Sputnik
Maria Butina, a Russian national convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent in the US, gave an interview to RT and Sputnik on a plane en route to Moscow on Saturday.
"I'm almost home. There is little time, just a few hours left. Thank you very much for your support. I am very much looking forward to the moment when the plane lands and I will be in my homeland. It's been a long and painful experience," said Butina.
She was released from a prison in Tallahassee, Florida on Friday after having served 15 months of an 18-month sentence.
Butina founded the Russian gun rights organisation Right to Bear Arms in 2011 and was involved in the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful gun rights lobby in US politics. She moved to the United States on a student visa in 2016 and was arrested in July 2018 on charges of being an unregistered foreign agent of the Russian Federation, for which she was convicted in April 2019.