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Once branded Russia’s most glamorous spy, Anna Chapman is back in the headlines- fifteen years after her dramatic arrest in New York for espionage. Anna Chapman has now been appointed as the head of the newly established Museum of Russian Intelligence, a project reportedly linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign spy agency, the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).
Who Is Anna Chapman?
Anna Chapman, born Anna Kushchenko in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), comes from a family with diplomatic roots. Her father served in the Soviet Union’s diplomatic corps, reportedly stationed in Kenya during her childhood. Anna Chapman studied economics at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, one of the country’s elite institutions. In 2001, she met A