Maria Butina, convicted in the U.S. of being a Russian agent, has been hired by Russia's state-funded RT television as a host for an online show
The show is called Wonderful Russia Bu Bu Bu, a play on words mocking a similar slogan by prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who talks of the"Wonderful Russia of the future" when President Vladimir Putin is no longer in power.
RT said Butina had taken part in the show last week and defended the jailing of several Russian opposition activists at anti-Kremlin protests earlier this year. Putin has in the past warmly welcomed home alleged Russian agents arrested abroad and said in 2010 he had sung patriotic songs with Anna Chapman, a Russian spy arrested in the United States and then freed as part of a major swap.
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