NRA President Offered to Work With Accused Russian Spy’s Group in Moscow
The NRA’s David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an investigation published on Thursday, Mother Jones documented the deep ties between the National Rifle Association and two Russians accused by the FBI of carrying out a malign political influence operation inside the United States: Maria…
The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina
Maria Butina in Moscow, in a photo she posted to Facebook in October 2013 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the National Rifle Association has promoted its hard-line politics with appeals to patriotism, freedom, and the staunch defense of the Second Amendment. But now, the controversial gun lobbying group…
Which Putin-Friendly Russian Oligarch Funded the Alleged Spy Who Penetrated the NRA?
Maria Butina speaks at a rally in support of legalizing handguns in Moscow, Russia.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Maria Butina—the 29-year-old Russian who penetrated the NRA and other conservative groups and who this week was arrested and accused of functioning as a spy for Moscow—allegedly had help from from…
Putin Just Dismissed the Mueller Probe as “Political Games” in Fox News Interview
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested the Mueller investigation is politically motivated, calling it part of the United States’ “internal political games” in a 30-minute interview with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that aired Monday night. “It’s quite clear to me that [the Mueller investigation] is…
Putin’s Comments in Helsinki Only Raised More Questions About Russia’s Election Interference
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump, left, during a press conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018.Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s remarks at a joint news conference with Vladimir Putin on Monday were…
US Indicts Russian Gun Activist Who Interacted with NRA and the Trump Campaign
Federal prosecutors have charged Maria Butina, a Russia gun-rights activist with a long history of interactions with the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, for conspiring to act as a Russian agent without registering with the US Department of Justice. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday, federal prosecutors charge that Butina, 29,…