Makes it all the better, bwhahahah!

Yeah I'm a trophy

Its really odd, but not uncalled for. Every country does this, just that the Russians are one of the few countries powerful enough to do this, yet incompetent enough to get caught.

Quite frankly I wouldn't be shocked if the USA (and many other countries) had spies in Russia too. It's just that the Russian spies got caught out. In either case I don't think it is anything malicious, just keeping an eye out.

And the Guardian is usually a pretty good source for this kind of stuff, it's not like the Daily Mail or some other extreme rumour mill paper. The only thing you can't really trust it with is the whole Israel/Palestine thing. But to be honest source doesn't matter here, it's been in every newspaper and on every web page. If you're worried about bias, you can just read another source.

I have no problem with Russian spies.

Tatiana Romanova and Major Anya Amasova are two extremely close acqaintances of mine.

In Soviet Russia thread posts you!

Spying is a very necessary part of international diplomacy. The truth is a spying ultimately prevents wars, arms races, and encourages open dialogue. Knowledge may be power, but it also dispels fear. Without fear parties are more likely to come to mutually beneficial agreements. While being ignorant usually makes you both fearful and distrustful. Which is usually a bad place to start from. In fact its more likely to allow a situation to spiral out of control. So while countries do actively try to thwart spying to keep their secrets. It is also true that most of them acknowledge the necessity. Just as the United States did during the Cold War. When it openly floated the idea of unrestricted fly overs of both Russian, and American territory.

Regardless caught spies aren't new, and neither is what happens to them. They usually get traded spy for spy. So give the new batch of spies five or six years, and most of them will be back in Russia. Either traded for a Western spy, or for some other concession. Personally I am less concerned by government spies then corporate spies. Those are the people that really make our lives that much harder.

Do people really believe those are spies? Either our foreign intelligence service is getting lazy, or this's massive provocation from one of the sides =)

I did'nt know there were hot chicks in russia,wait what's this thread about again. lol

These spies probably learned nothing. It seems they were more like ordinary people sent to the U.S. to live normal lives and perhaps extol the virtues of the Russian Federation once in a while. They weren't doing any James Bond, Mission Impossible stuff...

Although Russia should not have had them here legally, the truth it that had they been there legally with their goal clearly stated, they would not have been given a chance.

On the other hand, frankly, I doubt we are being told the whole truth, so everything I said and anyone else said coud be meaningless.