Maria Butina, the red-headed gun advocate from
Russia who built a network of high-level
Republican contacts before being arrested for spying, is expected to return to her country after her Friday release from a
Florida prison.
The only
Russian arrested and convicted in the three-year investigation of Moscow's interference in US politics, Butina parlayed ties with the
NRA firearms lobby into a network that brought her into contact with President
Donald Trump before his 2016
election, as well as with one of his sons.