[PRESSTV] Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected "fabricated charges" against a Russian woman nabbed
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in the United States on accusations of acting as a government agent, saying she should be freed immediately.
In a phone call to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday, Lavrov said the arrest of Maria Butina, a gun enthusiast, on espionage charges was "unacceptable," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a blurb on Monday that Butina had been charged "with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General," through establishing relationships and infiltrating organizations that had influence in US politics.
The DOJ alleged that Butina, 29, who studied at American University in Washington and is a founder of the pro-gun Russian advocacy group Right to Bear Arms, had acted with "the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation" at the direction of a "high-level" Russian official, who was not named in reports.
A US judge on Wednesday ordered Butina to be tossed in the clink
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until her trial.
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