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Maria Butina’s ‘Red Sparrow’ Makeover Revealed on Russian TV

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Maria Butina’s ‘Red Sparrow’ Makeover Revealed on Russian TV

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Maria Butina in Russia (left) and after the makeover for her America exploits. Courtesy: Russia Channel One.

12/27/18
Russia’s state-TV Channel One program, hosted by Andrey Malakhov, has aired a revealing special about Maria Butina, including interviews with her parents, relatives, and friends. She faces a maximum of five years in prison, but is likely to receive zero to six months based on her plea agreement. Russian state television and government officials appear to be deeply concerned about the information Butina has provided to U.S. authorities. In point of fact, Russian state media seems to be preparing the public for upcoming revelations of a sexual nature, openly comparing Maria Butina with Anna Chapman, who was arrested along with nine other agents in 2010, all of whom were exchanged for four spies held by Moscow. (Among them was Sergei Skripal, subsequently the object of an alleged Russian assassination attempt.) Maria Butina’s former friends and colleagues provided the Russian state-TV program with photos from her past that revealed a mousy brown mullet and frumpy attire before her redheaded makeover and glamorous photo-sessions with various weapons.


The admitted agent of influence drastically changed her appearance in the run-up to her exploits in the United States, leading to the impression that she was being groomed a little like the protagonist played by Jennifer Lawrence in the film Red Sparrow. Maria Butina’s former colleague at the Public Chamber Council of Altai Krai, Pavel Tulin, said he wasn’t surprised by her arrest. Tulin speculated that prior to her apprehension, Butina may have been recorded bragging about being a super-agent of the Russian intelligence agencies (SVR, GRU/GU or the FSB), whether or not that was truly the case. “Now she’s paying the price for whatever she blabbed about,” he added. Influential individuals on both sides of the ocean are rightfully concerned by Butina’s potential revelations about the knowledge she put into practice during her dealings with the GOP, the National Rifle Association, and others. “We are at war,” sums up Russian MP Andrey Svintsov. He concludes: “We may not be using conventional weapons, but we are using intellectual and info-weapons.” As one such tool of Russia’s hybrid warfare against the West, Maria Butina still has the potential to cause explosive fallout on both sides of the Atlantic.

I'm sure Maria (Mariya) has told investigators some very interesting things about the GOP and the NRA. No doubt she'll be exchanged as was Russian spy Anna (Anya) Chapman.

Her reception back in mother Russia is another matter altogether.
 
i hope that the rest of her life is better than it has been so far.
 
Wow! That's absolutely unbelievable!

I never knew that a woman might use cosmetics and hair dye to change her appearance. I wonder how many women do stuff like that and if the ones that do are all Russian spies?
 
Wow! That's absolutely unbelievable!

I never knew that a woman might use cosmetics and hair dye to change her appearance. I wonder how many women do stuff like that and if the ones that do are all Russian spies?

They all do it to “fool” their quarry.......:shock:
 
Of course this is going to sink the GOP and the NRA.... Barf!

More garbage from the daily Beast.
 
Maria Butina’s ‘Red Sparrow’ Makeover Revealed on Russian TV

181227-butina-makeover-tease_jojada

Maria Butina in Russia (left) and after the makeover for her America exploits. Courtesy: Russia Channel One.



I'm sure Maria (Mariya) has told investigators some very interesting things about the GOP and the NRA. No doubt she'll be exchanged as was Russian spy Anna (Anya) Chapman.

Her reception back in mother Russia is another matter altogether.

She still looks like Boris Yeltsin with boobs and a wig.
The NRA guys must have been pretty hard up.
 
Maria Butina’s ‘Red Sparrow’ Makeover Revealed on Russian TV

181227-butina-makeover-tease_jojada

Maria Butina in Russia (left) and after the makeover for her America exploits. Courtesy: Russia Channel One.



I'm sure Maria (Mariya) has told investigators some very interesting things about the GOP and the NRA. No doubt she'll be exchanged as was Russian spy Anna (Anya) Chapman.

Her reception back in mother Russia is another matter altogether.

So what is it this woman has done that anyone should care or worry about?
 
So what is it this woman has done that anyone should care or worry about?

Gee Fletch, why don't you read her guilty plea?

SMH
 
Maria Butina’s ‘Red Sparrow’ Makeover Revealed on Russian TV

181227-butina-makeover-tease_jojada

Maria Butina in Russia (left) and after the makeover for her America exploits. Courtesy: Russia Channel One.



I'm sure Maria (Mariya) has told investigators some very interesting things about the GOP and the NRA. No doubt she'll be exchanged as was Russian spy Anna (Anya) Chapman.

Her reception back in mother Russia is another matter altogether.

If anything the US left and Russia had common goals in trying to destroy the NRA, so it makes sense to use the NRA to get her in the same room with Trump to further create the left's dream of Trump being a Russian agent, and tarnish the NRA at the same time.

I don't know why we go so easy on spies. She should do half her sentence, then be traded.
 
She still looks like Boris Yeltsin with boobs and a wig.
The NRA guys must have been pretty hard up.

To be honest, based on this picture. I'd say she's trying too hard. She looked cuter before. I like the tomboy look better than overtly sexualized red heads anyways
 
To be honest, based on this picture. I'd say she's trying too hard. She looked cuter before. I like the tomboy look better than overtly sexualized red heads anyways

I'm just being kind of a dickhead, screwing around.
 
I'm just being kind of a dickhead, screwing around.

But as to your point it does seem that the NRA members were perfectly fine and not suspicious at all with the hot girl paying attention to them. No red flags went up for them...

Back when I was a scrawny nerd, I would have killed for a chance just to get with her before pic. Here's a better pic:
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I've gained about 30 lbs of muscle in the past year, but I would still be suspicious if 2016 Maria Butina came up to me and started overtly flirting... and I'm not 40+ years old.
 
Its amazing that you have to spoon feed some people here....

Dont pretend like you have read it because we both know you havent. The next time you can actually discuss something like this with any degree of intelligence will be the first time.
 
Dont pretend like you have read it because we both know you havent. The next time you can actually discuss something like this with any degree of intelligence will be the first time.
You were looking into a mirror while typing that, right?
 
Maria Butina’s ‘Red Sparrow’ Makeover Revealed on Russian TV

181227-butina-makeover-tease_jojada

Maria Butina in Russia (left) and after the makeover for her America exploits. Courtesy: Russia Channel One.



I'm sure Maria (Mariya) has told investigators some very interesting things about the GOP and the NRA. No doubt she'll be exchanged as was Russian spy Anna (Anya) Chapman.

Her reception back in mother Russia is another matter altogether.

They don’t look like the same person to me...........unless she lost weight and had some work done. Chin line doesn’t match and the smile lines that arc away from the nose aren’t visible on the “before” photo??
 
Dont pretend like you have read it because we both know you havent. The next time you can actually discuss something like this with any degree of intelligence will be the first time.

My, my, someone has their grouchy pants on today!
 
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