"The court appoints A.J. Kramer as a lawyer for the defendant Maria Butina", - stated in the decision.
It is noted that A. Jay Kramer, according to the data indicated on the website of the office of federal public defenders, is a state lawyer.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Moscow had sent a note to the State Department because of the stricter conditions for Butina’s detention in an American prison.
Butina was detained in the United States in July on suspicion of "working for Russia as an agent."