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Why Russians Keep Visiting Mariia Butina in Prison

HumblePi said:
Well, I didn't literally mean Sergey Lavrov visited her in jail personally (duh). According to the prosecution’s filing, the Russian government has conducted six consular visits to Butina and passed four diplomatic notes to the U.S. Department of State about her case. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has spoken twice to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to complain about Butina’s incarceration and prosecution. As prosecutors noted, in the days following Butina’s arrest, the official Kremlin Twitter account changed its avatar to a picture of her and launched #FreeMariaButina. RT—a Russian news outlet funded by the Russian government—has written a number of articles about her, decrying her prosecution and detention. According to prosecutors, “Russia has issued more diplomatic notes on the defendant’s behalf in the past month than for any other Russian citizen imprisoned in the United States in the past year. Put simply, the Russian government has given this case much more attention than other cases.”

Why is Russia taking such an intense interest in Maria Butina? Russian officials would want to make sure she doesn’t give away any information that might compromise Russian intelligence activities. They might even be coaching her on what to say. Even the state-run news agency TASS has reported on these visits. TASS: World - After visiting Butina in US jail, Russian diplomats to send note to Department of State

[snip]WASHINGTON, August 17. /TASS/. Russian diplomats, who visited Russian citizen Maria Butina in a Washington jail on Thursday, described her prison conditions as inadmissible and will send a note of protest to the US Department of State, the Russian embassy in Washington said.
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Then you shouldn't have implied it...dude.
 
OpportunityCost said:
Whole time I am reading it I was thinking, who is supposed to visit her? Greenlanders?
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The TDS Russian Obsession has reached the level of psychosis especially when you factor in their blithe dismissal of the BLATANT RUSSIAN COLLUSION of the Hillary Campaign/DNC/Obama Swamp/FusionGPS/Steele etc....


All reasonable discourse on this topic is LONG OVER with the foamy-mouthed TDS Russianistas...wait until ALL THE FISA/DOJ/FBI docs are released, UNREDACTED...giving GLARING EXPOSURE to the entire Witch Hunt Conspiracy; they'll STILL BE IGNORING/DOWPLAYING/DENYING it....wait and see...
 
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