Oh, not to be young and Russian in Washington DC. Politico reports:
Nothing prepared the young Russians of Washington for the wintry blast of social isolation and suspicion that followed the arrest this July of an attractive young Russian apparatchik. When Maria Butina, 29, was charged with acting as an unregistered Kremlin agent from her perch as a grad student at American University, it seemed to confirm Washington’s worst suspicions about them…
Their Tinder dates keep asking them if they’re spies.
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