<p class="title">Russian Embassy officials are to meet with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Embassy said in a Facebook post that consular officials will meet with Maria Butina tomorrow for the first time since her Sunday arrest, and will provide her "all necessary help".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Butina, 29, denies wrongdoing, and the Russian government has lashed out at the arrest as driven by US domestic politics and "anti-Russian hysteria".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Federal prosecutors accuse Butina of being a covert Russian agent, having contacts with the KGB successor agency FSB, and using sex and deception to forge influential US connections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One of her former teachers told The Associated Press that just before her arrest she was considering a job in Silicon Valley.</p>
<p class="title">Russian Embassy officials are to meet with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Embassy said in a Facebook post that consular officials will meet with Maria Butina tomorrow for the first time since her Sunday arrest, and will provide her "all necessary help".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Butina, 29, denies wrongdoing, and the Russian government has lashed out at the arrest as driven by US domestic politics and "anti-Russian hysteria".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Federal prosecutors accuse Butina of being a covert Russian agent, having contacts with the KGB successor agency FSB, and using sex and deception to forge influential US connections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One of her former teachers told The Associated Press that just before her arrest she was considering a job in Silicon Valley.</p>