Meet The Controversial New Faces In Russia's Parliament
- By Ray Furlong and
- Current Time
There are some controversial new faces in Russia's State Duma after elections, widely deemed neither free nor fair, filled it once again with Kremlin-connected figures. Among them: Maria Butina, who was convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent for Russia and spent time in a U.S. jail, and former General Andrei Kartapolov, who is on an EU sanctions list for "undermining or threatening" Ukrainian independence.