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Maria Butina, a Russian who was freed after serving a US prison sentence for failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, arrived in Moscow and thanked diplomats and groups who supported her.
“Russians don’t give up,†she said in a brief statement at the airport, accompanied by her father and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
A phalanx of TV cameras awaited her, but she didn’t take questions after making the brief statement.
President Vladimir Putin has no plans to meet her, the Kremlin said.
Butina, a self-styled gun-rights activist who befriended senior officials from the National Rifle Association and the Republican party in the run-up to the 2016 election, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Russia described Butina as a political prisoner and victim of provocation by US special services.