As she awaited sentencing, Maria Butina said she was most looking forward to returning to Barnaul, her hometown in Siberia, to spend time with her family and, perhaps, become a teacher
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Butina insisted, in a pair of interviews with CNN at the Alexandria Detention Center, that she has no plans to become a media darling or television star when she returns home, a nod to the celebrity homecoming Russian intelligence agent Anna Chapman received when she returned to Russia as part of a 2010 spy swap. "I'm not a circus bear," Butina said during one conversation. Maria Butina in US District Court April 26, 2019.
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