Every Russki in America arrested for spying

[Carsten Wiethoff]

Obviously the story of Anna Chapman is used heavily for public relations purpose (aka propaganda) in Russia.

From http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...e=politics

(10-24) 04:00 PDT Moscow --
President Dmitry Medvedev bestowed the country's highest state honor Monday on the Russian sleeper agents deported from the United States as part of the countries' biggest spy swap since the Cold War, the Interfax news agency reported.
The awards were handed out at a Kremlin ceremony less than four months after the exchange, the agency quoted Medvedev spokeswoman Natalya Timakova as saying. No other details on the ceremony were available and Kremlin spokespeople were not immediately reachable.
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The spies received a hero's welcome in Russia, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin leading them in a patriotic sing-along in July.
The most famous of the agents, Anna Chapman, visited the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this month for the launch of a Russian spaceship, fueling her celebrity in Russia and abroad.
Chapman was in Baikonur ostensibly as the new celebrity face of a Moscow bank.
FondServisBank, which works with Russian companies in the aerospace industry, said it had hired Chapman to bring innovation to its information technologies.
It did not escape Russians' attention that the initials of the bank, FSB, are the same as Russia's main spy agency.
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Must be fun to be a spy nowadays.