RUSSIAN spy Anna Chapman has revealed some secrets in her first TV interview: She has a passion for shooting and wants a lion cub as a pet — though she remained coy on the job that made her an international tabloid star.

Russian spy Anna Chapman has revealed some secrets in her first TV interview - she has a passion for shooting, wants a lion cub as a pet and Sean Connery is her favourite James Bond actor.

RUSSIAN spy Anna Chapman has stripped off for a cover spread in a men’s magazine, striking a number of James Bond-style poses in her latest stunt since she left the United States.

The Russian sleeper agents deported from the US were today awarded the country’s highest state honours by President Dmitry Medvedev.

The 10 spies sent to Russia after being uncovered as sleeper agents in the United States have received a tepid reception.

The largest US-Russian spy swap since the Cold War happened less than a month after an idea was secretly hatched in the Oval Office, and reached fruition on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac.

Ten Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America and acted as spies were on a plane to Moscow today.

The largest Russia-US spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be underway today as a jailed Russian was freed from a Moscow prison and flown to Vienna.

A DONEGAL man was interviewed by Garda detectives this week after it emerged his passport was used by one of the alleged Russian spies arrested in the US.

SUSPECTED Russian spy Anna Chapman was said to be “embarrassed” by the media coverage generated by her arrest as her ex-husband yesterday revealed more intimate details about their relationship.

A US judge has ordered three Russian spying suspects to be kept detained, saying she considered “the defendants at risk of flight”.

ONE of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to US federal agents that he worked for Russia’s intelligence service, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Cyprus authorities stepped up their search today for the 11th alleged member of a Russian spy ring who vanished after skipping bail, but police refused to answer questions about why the suspect was granted bail in the first place.

A WOMAN at the centre of a transatlantic probe into spy allegations previously worked in Britain.

The FBI arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia’s intelligence service, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating US government policymaking circles.