Saturday, November 29, 2014

What Happens To Former Russian Spies

Anna Chapman. Wired

Ex-Spy Anna Chapman, From Russia Unloved -- Anna Nemtsova, Saily Beast

With scarlet lips and chemical red hair, the erstwhile agent is still making headlines in the West. She’s put out a film exalting the virtues of the Russian army (even the units in Ukraine). But her audience in the Motherland is negligible.

MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow. One would expect a red-haired, red-lipsticked celebrity-ex-spy, wearing expensive designer dresses that are tight enough to sculpt her curves in high relief, to attract attention. But here in the hip Clear Ponds neighborhood, where at any time of the day women are used to seeing and being seen to be cool, glamour is nothing special. It’s rare that another client would turn her head to look at Chapman, and besides, not many people in Moscow actually know who she is.

Most of the times I’ve seen Chapman, she has seemed upset or moody, locked in her own thoughts. Once I asked her if she'd like to be interviewed. She declined, barely looking up as she leafed through a fashion magazine. With a little grin she said she did not like to give interviews: “Why would I need it? My popularity rating is high enough, I don’t need more publicity.”

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My Comment: Anna Nemtsova is right that former Russian spy Anna Chapman attracts far more attention from the West .... than from anyone in Russia.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

IVE JUST BEEN WATCHING A VIDEO BY A LADY CALLED MNAR MUHAWESH WHO IS EDITOR IN CHIEF OF MINT PRESS NEWS IN MINNEAPOLIS RESON IS TO GO BACK TO YOUR STORY OF RUSSSIAN GENERAL WHO SAYS US IS CAUSE OF 3 QUATERS OF ALL WAR CONFLICTS IS TRUE AND YOUR WRONG IF YOU WATCH HER SPEECH SHE SAYS AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME US GOV,ARMY IS INVOLVED IN OVER 134 CONFLICTS

War News Updates Editor said...

PETER .... I put it around 40 conflicts .... this is after-all what this blog does .... covers wars and conflicts. But still .... 40 wars and conflicts .... that is a lot of involvement.