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Update: On Thursday, December 13, 2018, Maria Butina appeared before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where she pleaded guilty to conspiracy and acting under the direction of the Russian government.As part of the plea deal, Butina faces the maximum of five years in prison and the prospect of deportation, waived her right of appeal.The judge presiding over the case, Tanya Chutkan, said that upon completion of the sentence, Butina will be denied the possibility of obtaining U.S. citizenship or a U.S. visa. That runs contrary to Russian journalist Vadim Gorshenin’s claim that Butina was set to receive U.S. citizenship after months of torture in an American prison."Her lawyers had previously argued that ""prolonged depravation of human contact and interaction is starting to have a profound psychological impact" on their client. But when asked
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