A Russian woman has been arrested and charged with conspiring to act as an agent of Russia in the US “by developing relationships with US persons and infiltrating organisations having influence in American politics.”
The Department of Justice said the woman carried out her activities in the US at the direction of the “Russian official”.
In a statement, the women’s lawyer, Robert Driscoll, said she was not an agent of the Russian Federation but was instead in the US on a student visa, graduating from an American University.