Russian sentenced to 18 months for being agent for Kremlin

By ASHRAF KHALIL and CHAD DAY
WASHINGTON — Maria Butina, a Russian who admitted to secretly working for the Kremlin to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.
Butina has been jailed since her July 2018 arrest and had asked for a sentence of time served. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed a sentence that would require Butina to spend an additional nine months behind bars, before being deported.
Chutkan said the sentence was mean