Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman

Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring. At the time of her arrest, she was accused of espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (SVR). She had previously gained British citizenship through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S. Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. She and the other Russians were deported to Russia on 8 July 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia–U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Chapman has received more than 2,441,408 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Anna Chapman is the 102nd most popular celebrity (down from 97th in 2019), the 1,808th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,641st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Celebrity.