"The government respectfully recommends that Butina be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 18 months, and that the Court execute the requested Order of Judicial Removal," the court filing read.
Butina was arrested in Washington, DC in mid-July last year on suspicion of working as an unregistered foreign agent for the Russian government. The young woman initially denied the charges, but last December, she agreed to cooperate with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
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Sentencing in Butina's case is scheduled for April 26.
Both Butina's defence and US prosecutors have requested the court that the Russian national be deported immediately after sentencing.