A
Russian agent briefly jailed in the
United States and then deported back to
Moscow has accepted a state job to defend Russians imprisoned abroad, TASS news agency reported on Friday.
Maria Butina, 31, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court last December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for
Russia by infiltrating a gun rights group and influencing conservative activists and Republicans.
Moscow slammed her conviction as ridiculous and accused
Washington of forcing Butina to confess.