
Maria Butina was born in 1988 in Barnaul in a wealthy family, graduated from a gymnasium there with in -depth study of the English language, and then Altai State University in the specialties of Politicalology and Pedagogy. Since childhood, she showed a tendency to publicity: she led the school museum, in his student years she was an activist of the Altai branch of the youth movement “Victory” from the “Just Russia”, while still a student, became a member of the Public Chamber of the Altai Territory. But the peak of her public activity is, of course, the protection of the rights of people who own weapons. In 2011, Masha Butina founded the public organization “Right to Weapons” , which aims to legalize pistol owners and revolvers for ordinary citizens.
Soon, Maria, feeling that Barnaul is not enough and she has nowhere to turn around in it, moves to Moscow, where she opens the Antares advertising agency and officially register the all -Russian public organization to increase the weapons right to weapons . In 2012, American journalist Julia Joffe published an article on Butina and her organization in The New Republic. This is how she describes her first impression of her:
“Maria Butina met guests with a gun in a holster and resting her hands on her sides. Professional hunting headphones hung on her neck; Yellow rifle glasses raised her painted red hair, as if carelessly forgotten sunglasses. "Welcome!" She said and explained to those who were going to do: shoot. -I hope that tonight will be unforgettable, and you will leave with the feeling that you held in your hands something so powerful, so incredible. So enjoy! ””
The meeting took place in the former Tira KGB, where Maria Butina was now refueling. With weapons in their hands surrounded by armed men who are subordinate to her, she, in her own words, “felt great.”
“Although it is a member of the National Infantry Association (NRA),” Julia Joffe continues, “the eyes of Butina have little in common with the American movement that sees the tool of freedom in weapons. It also does not see any connection between its movement and anti -brlean protests that covered Moscow last winter and spring [2011-2012]. Its organization, which currently has 400 members, is a mixture of a mixture of a mixture Communists and nationalists, while Butina herself votes for Vladimir Putin and his party "United Russia". "
Around the same time, Butina writes an article in his blog in a living journal about the benefits of bodily punishment in raising children and re -education of criminals (the spelling and punctuation of the author of the blog are preserved):
“In any case, it is clear that prohibitions on bodily punishment of children from parents and by their consent in school institutions are a wildness that violates the sovereignty of the family and forcibly imposing an universally working model of education at all. <...> If the departure from the practice of assaulting in education can still be understood by considerations of“ humanism ”, then a similar practice in the field of law enforcement is understandable. For several years, a dubious educational alternative, as not to turn, and the mechanism of bodily punishment is a very underestimated and unfairly forgotten in our justice.
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