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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/world/europe/russia-social-media-maria-butina.htmlRussian Flash Mob Urges U.S. to Free Maria Butina
By Megan Specia
July 20, 2018
Russias Foreign Ministry has begun a social media campaign calling for the release of Maria Butina, whom American prosecutors accused this week of acting as a covert Russian agent.
Federal prosecutors say that Ms. Butina, 29, attempted to infiltrate political organizations and influence politicians while living in Washington on a student visa. Russia has denied the allegations.
Now, Moscow is using its formidable social media apparatus to press for her release. The Foreign Ministry posted a call to action on its Twitter account on Thursday, declaring that it was mobilizing a digital flash mob in support of Ms. Butina and urged supporters to change their profile pictures to that of Ms. Butina.
A similar message was posted to the ministrys Facebook page, and both accounts switched over to an image of Ms. Butina, her red hair blowing in the breeze. The accounts also urged Russians to share messages under the hashtag #FreeMariaButina to voice their support.
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spanone
(135,882 posts)kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)again just as they did in the months before the 2016 election...example...a vicious anti-Clinton article equating the things she said about Russia in 2010 to today...ignoring things have kinda changed since then regarding the whole cyberattacks and spies and money laundering stuff.
They are opening the floodgates again and Putinpublicans are good with it...so sad they do not se themselves as the world does...traitors to their own country.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Home. GEt out of our country.
RainCaster
(10,920 posts)Our country is much better off if she is on her back in a cell block. Soon enough the GOP will be in there with her.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)No.
Have a nice day.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)oasis
(49,410 posts)sdfernando
(4,941 posts)trying to get Maria Butina released. You'ld think she was some kind of a spy....Oh, wait!
onecaliberal
(32,899 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)Lock them up.
yup
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)they wouldn't bother doing this.
H2O Man
(73,622 posts)I hope there isn't a republican Flesh Mob forming in DC to protest for her release.