FILE PHOTO: Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina, who was released from a Florida prison and then deported by U.S. immigration officials, holds flowers upon her arrival at Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, Russia October 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Maria Butina, who was jailed in the United States after admitting to working as a Russian agent, said on Wednesday she had applied to take part in primaries for Russia's ruling party to run for a parliamentary seat.
Butina, now 32, pleaded guilty in December 2018 to infiltrating a U.S. gun rights group and influencing conservative activists and Republicans.
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