Before becoming the president of Russia, He spent 16 years working as a KGB foreign intelligence officer.the intelligence agency of the Soviet Union.
This long stage of his professional life has made him The Russian president highly values those who act as spies for one of the four intelligence services that Russia currently has: the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Central Intelligence Department (GRU) and the Federal Protection Service ( FSO).
This has been pointed out recently, in statements to Newsweekthe Russian historian Sergey Radchenko. “What happened with Putin is that the spy profession suddenly acquired a new degree of respectability, turning into glamorous heroes. like James Bond”, he highlighted.
One of the greatest examples of Putin’s elevation of spies is Anna Chapmanwho after being arrested in 2010 in the United States as part of a Russian spy network, She went on to be a television presenter and model.
However, Dan Lomas, an intelligence expert and associate professor at the University of Nottingham, has stressed, also in words to Newsweekwhich, Despite this fame acquired by the spy, “the final irony is that Anna Chapman was a cheap spy.”
“Putin has been very clear about his past in the intelligence services and what we are seeing really with people like Anna Chapman “It is a glorification of the spy, as someone to admire and emulate within Russian society.”Dan Lomas added in this regard.
