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Moscow to continue supporting Butina after she pleaded guilty: Lavrov

Baku, Dec 14 (Sputnik) Moscow will continue supporting Russian national Maria Butina, jailed in the United States, after she "made a bargain" with the system of justice and pleaded guilty to one count, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Friday.
"She's being held in extreme conditions. For many-many months, she has been in fact subject to peculiar tortures ... I have reasons to believe that such conditions were created in order to break her will and force her to plead guilty of what she most probably had not in fact committed. But this is her decision, and we'll do everything we can so that our citizen's rights are respected, and so that she comes back home as soon as possible," Lavrov said.
He explained that Russian diplomats had visited Butina yesterday.
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