FILE PHOTO: Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina, who was released from a Florida prison and then deported by U.S. immigration officials, meets journalists upon the arrival at Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, Russia October 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - In her first public appearance since being deported by U.S. authorities who had jailed her for being a Russian agent, Maria Butina was on Monday offered a job by Moscow to defend Russians imprisoned abroad.
During an event for the media, Russia's human rights commissioner, Tatyana Moskalkova, offered Butina, 31, a job working for her commission.
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