A revealed spy of the Russian special services, deported from the United States in the summer of 2010 due to her confession of illegal cooperation with Russia. Some media outlets claim that Chapman is not actually related to Russian intelligence services.
Biography of Anna Chapman
Anna Vasilievna Chapman(maiden name Kushchenko) was born on February 23, 1982 in Volgograd. Her mother, Irina Nikolaevna, taught mathematics in high school, and her father was a diplomat who worked in Papua New Guinea, Kenya and Zimbabwe. Anna graduated from her senior year in Moscow, after which she entered the Faculty of Economics of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN).
Immediately after receiving her diploma, Anna moved to the UK to join her British husband Alex Chapman(Alex Chapman).
Anna Chapman in the UK
With her future English husband Alex Chapmen Anna met in 2001 during a tourist trip. He came to Moscow, where Anna and Alex’s wedding took place in March 2002. Kushchenko took her husband’s last name, writing it in her Russian passport with an “a”. After marriage, Anna continued her studies at RUDN University, and Alex worked as an English tutor in Moscow.
In 2003, Chapman graduated and left for the UK. She worked for an aviation company for several months NetJets Europe, then in the small business division of Barclays Bank. In 2005, Anna left her husband.
According to Alex, the main reason for their breakup was Anna’s desire for material well-being, which he could not give her.
In 2006, Chapman decided to return to Moscow. Here she created and headed the LLC company "Real Estate Search"(PropertyFinder Ltd.), and in 2008 founded the Domdot.ru website, positioned as a “real estate search engine.” According to Anna, the starting capital was obtained from the sale of all her jewelry, and at first she had to limit herself in everything, giving every penny to the business.
Chapman was a member of the Moscow Club of Young Entrepreneurs, took part in the III Moscow Venture Forum, and also received 250 thousand from the Agency for the Development of Innovative Entrepreneurship.
However, the project did not bring the expected results. According to market experts, Domdot.ru did not have a clear business model, the site was not of high quality and did not correspond to the level of declared investments.
Anna Chapman in the USA
In early 2010, Chapman came to the United States to promote a project to find rental housing in New York. Another goal was to create the TIME Ventures company, which was supposed to search for promising Russian companies to open branches of American companies in Russia.
However, according to an expert from the TechCrunch portal, Anna’s website NYCrentals.com is replete with grammatical errors, and the very idea of a universal real estate search engine is not original, which suggested that this site is just a cover.
Arrest and expulsion of Anna Chapman
On June 27, 2010, Anna was arrested on charges of illegal collaboration with Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. According to the FBI, Chapman and nine other immigrants from Russia tried to obtain information about US nuclear weapons, CIA leaders and congressmen, and policy towards Iran. The arrest was heralded as the biggest spy scandal since Soviet times and the biggest failure of Russian intelligence services abroad.
On July 8, 2010, Chapman and the other defendants admitted to intelligence activities in the United States, after which they were sentenced to prison time (corresponding to the period of pretrial detention), confiscation of property in the United States, and deportation from the country.
On the same day, all those arrested were deported to Russia in exchange for four Russians convicted at different times of spying for the United States and Great Britain. Despite the accusations and Anna’s own confession, according to current US law, she is not a spy, since she never gained access to any classified information.
According to one version, Chapman was involved in money laundering for high-ranking Russian officials, but no evidence of this idea was made public.
Anna planned to return to England, but on July 13, 2010, she was stripped of her British citizenship.
Anna Chapman after deportation
After returning to Moscow, Chapman received offers in the field of fashion and show business. Anna starred in erotic photo shoots in Maxim and Zhara magazines, thanks to which the press gave her the nickname “agent 90-60-90.” She participated in Andrei Malakhov’s program “Let Them Talk,” however, according to some reports, this issue became the most disastrous in ratings over the past few years.
At the end of 2010, Chapman joined the public council of the youth movement " Young Guard of United Russia", and was also hired as an investment and innovation advisor to the president of Fondservicebank.
Since May 2011 Anna Chapman is the editor-in-chief of the specialized periodical “Venture Business News” and writes a book about innovation.
In 2015, rumors appeared about Anna’s pregnancy, which were later confirmed; she had a son.
Secrets of the world with Anna Chapman
On January 12, 2011, it was announced that Chapman would host a new program on the REN TV channel. "Secrets of the World" with Anna Chapman. The ex-spy became the host of her own documentary project, aired on the REN-TV channel. The project was then renamed "The Chapman Mysteries".
All issues "Tyne Chapman" are sensational and mysterious stories that reveal the mysteries of the modern world. High-ranking officials are certainly involved in each of the stories. To date, more than 150 episodes of the program have been aired. In each of the stories, the presenter personally takes part in dangerous experiments and expeditions to different parts of the world, revealing hoax stories.
The program covers incredible scientific theories, sensational facts, eyewitness stories, and sometimes exclusive interviews. Ordinary objects and phenomena appear in a new light. Chapman, as the host, presents incredible facts about what people eat, drink and use in their daily lives.
Anna Vasilievna Chapman (February 23, 1982, Volgograd) - Russian public figure, entrepreneur, uncovered Russian intelligence agent operating in the United States.
Childhood, youth
Anna Chapman (née Kushchenko) was born into the family of a diplomat who worked in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Papua New Guinea. According to Anna, her father was a KGB officer. The mother of the future intelligence officer worked as a mathematics teacher. When her parents moved to Moscow, she stayed with her grandmother in Volgograd. Anna received her secondary education at Volgograd Gymnasium No. 11. But she completed 11th grade in Moscow.
In 1999, Anna entered the Faculty of Economics of the RUDN University. While studying, she married a British resident, Alex Chapman. In 2003, Anna graduated from university and moved to the UK.
Professional activities in the UK
2003 - while in the UK, Anna founded the Southern Union company, where she was engaged in financial transactions with Zimbabwe. In particular, Chapman helped Zimbabweans living in Britain transfer money home much cheaper than what banking institutions offered. These transactions were carried out through shell companies and numerous bank accounts. After Anna Chapman was expelled from the United States, the British Intelligence Service began investigating the activities of the specified company in connection with suspicion of money laundering.
May-July 2004 – Anna worked at the London company NetJets Europe as an assistant assistant. Although Anna Vasilievna herself claimed that she was involved in the rental and sale of aircraft to Russia in the said company, closely communicating with the owner of NetJets Europe, billionaire W. Buffett.
August 2004 - July 2005 – worked as an ordinary employee of Barclays Bank.
2005-2007 - According to her resume, Chapman headed the department for initial public offerings at the British company Navigator. True, the company itself denies this information.
Entrepreneurship in Russia
2006 - Chapman returned to Russia, where she founded and headed the Real Estate Search company. In 2008, this company created the Internet resource Domdot.ru, which positioned itself as a “real estate search engine.” Anna claimed that she received start-up capital for her company by selling all her jewelry. Government agencies also provided financial support for her project. For example, the Agency for the Development of Innovative Entrepreneurship provided Anna with 250 thousand rubles. However, the described project did not bring good results. Experts attribute the failure of the site to the lack of interesting content, a broad advertising campaign, and most importantly, a clear business model. At the moment the Domdot.ru website is not working.
2007-2008 – worked as vice president at KIT Fortis Investments. True, the general director of the named company explained that all employees who were involved in sales had such a position.
Chapman in the USA or the biggest failure of Russian intelligence services
In February 2010, Anna moved to the USA. According to her, she moved to promote her American Internet project NYCrentals.com (real estate search engine). Many experts noted that the site was not of high quality, and some stated that it was just a cover for intelligence activities. At the moment, the named Internet resource is unavailable.
While in the United States, Chapman was seen exchanging encrypted messages with a Russian working as part of the UN mission. In June 2010, Anna was contacted by a man who called himself “Roman” and stated that he was her curator. In fact, the person mentioned played the role of a fake agent of the American intelligence services. Soon, “Roman” offered Anna a personal meeting, during which he instructed her to hand over a fake passport to a “Russian illegal.” Then Anna called her father and said that she was “close to failure.” Immediately after this, she took the fake passport to the police, where she was arrested. Chapman's actions prompted the arrest of 10 more alleged Russian intelligence agents.
Anna Chapman was accused of collaborating with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (an attempt to obtain information about US nuclear weapons, congressmen and CIA leaders). Anna admitted that she was involved in intelligence activities and was sentenced to imprisonment, confiscation of property and deportation from the United States. At the beginning of July 2010, she was deported to Russia in exchange for 4 people convicted of espionage for Great Britain and the United States. In August, Anna was in quarantine in the Moscow region, where she met with V. Putin.
Despite all the events described above, some Russian media believe that A. Chapman had no relation to the Russian special services.
Life at home
October 2010 - Chapman becomes an investment and innovation advisor to the head of Fondservicebank, working on a free schedule. A representative of Fondservisbank said that with the support of the bank, Anna Chapman will work on a project dedicated to protecting the planet from factors affecting it from space (asteroids, meteor showers, etc.).
December 2010 - Anna Chapman joins the public council of the Young Guard of United Russia.
2011 - becomes the host of the program “Secrets of the World with Anna Chapman” (REN TV). In the same year, Anna became editor-in-chief of Venture Business News.
Personal life
Anna Vasilievna got married quite early, while being a student at RUDN University. In the summer of 2001, during a trip to Britain, she met Alex Chapman, a recording studio worker. A few months later, Alex arrived in Moscow, and in 2002 the wedding took place. Anna decided to take her husband's last name, recording it in her passport with some changes - she replaced Chapman with Chapman. After marriage, Anna continued her studies at the university, and Alex at that time worked as an English tutor.
It is worth noting that the British newspaper Daily Mail at one time reported that Anna married Chapman only in order to obtain a British passport. This opinion is most likely caused by the fact that already in 2005 she left her husband, and in 2006 the couple divorced. Chapman himself believed that the reason for their separation was his wife’s strong desire for material well-being. He also claimed that Anna was dating an American industrialist and a Swiss banker. In addition, Chapman complained that during their marriage, Anna very quickly turned from a carefree girl into an “unpleasant and extremely arrogant” person entering into influential spheres. At the same time, he called her “extremely smart.”
One of Anna’s friends claimed that while living in London, Chapman met with many rich people, including the oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
The former intelligence officer and TV presenter hid her interesting position, but rumors about her pregnancy had been circulating for a long time. The other day in one of the clinics in Moscow Anna Chapman had a son. It is known that mother and baby are doing well. The name of the newborn, like other details, is kept secret.
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“I tried to keep it secret until the last minute, but, unfortunately, it didn’t work out. Thanks for the congratulations,”– Chapman confirmed the information about the birth of her first child in an interview with StarHit magazine.
In the last months of pregnancy, she was engaged in business. The former spy chose a less dangerous job and created her own clothing brand under her own name. Last November, the ex-intelligence officer opened her first store in Moscow. In June of this year, Chapman's third boutique opened, the opening of which she attended while she was seven months pregnant.
Anna Chapman does not name the father of her first child. Half a year ago there were rumors that the TV presenter married former CIA officer Edward Snowden. As they wrote Days.Ru, Chapman, who became one of the defendants in the US spy scandal in 2010, proposed marriage to Snowden, who was wanted by the American authorities, on her microblog on Twitter.
The note, which could be considered a marriage proposal, was left by 31-year-old Chapman on the night of July 4, 2013. A month after this, Snowden, who organized leaks of information from the US National Security Agency to the media, received temporary asylum in Russia.
A spy from Russia revealed some secrets while participating in the Channel One talk show “Let them talk to Andrei Malakhov.” It turned out that Anna loves to shoot and dreams of having a lion cub. But, despite everyone's interest, the girl did not say anything about the work that made her a star in tabloid newspapers around the world. The program with the participation of a 28-year-old brown-haired woman, who said that the failure of her mission was an opportunity thanks to which she received new opportunities, aired on Channel One just before the New Year. But Anna refused to disclose the details of her mission.
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1. After deportation from the United States, Anna became the face of Fondservisbank, which works with Russian aerospace industrial companies. Interestingly, the bank’s abbreviation (“FSB”) is the same as the abbreviation of Russia’s main intelligence agency. The bank hopes Chapman will bring innovation in the use of information technology. But what we can say for sure is that the appearance of such an employee provided the bank with bright advertising.
2. Among other things, the energetic person managed to join the “Young Guard” - the youth wing of the United Russia party. And on Channel One, Anna said that in the new year she was going to launch her own television show.
3. Anna appeared in only her underwear on the cover of the November issue of the Russian edition of Maxim magazine under the headline “Agent 90-60-90 in an exclusive shoot for your eyes only.” Such a title was clearly meant to hint readers at the title of the 1981 film “James Bond 007: For Your Eyes Only,” the plot of which, by the way, featured Soviet intelligence services.
4. When Anna was asked to name her favorite actor to play Agent 007, she answered without hesitation that it was Sean Connery. She also said she admired her role as a CIA agent in the 2010 film Salt - and hinted that she has the makings of an action star. “I’m a very good shot,” Anna Chapman said. “I have a passion for this business and love going to the shooting ranges.”
5. Chapman remained largely silent when asked during interviews about the main reason for her popularity and refused to confirm that she worked for Russian intelligence. When asked who she suspected of betrayal, Anna said that she did not want to judge anyone in advance and did not want to wish trouble on anyone in advance. Anna called herself an absolutely happy person and said that she quickly forgets all the bad things that happened to her.
6. Chapman was one of 10 Russian secret agents exposed by United States intelligence agencies and sent home in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War. For several months now, Chapman has been teasing the media, either appearing half-naked on the pages of a men's magazine, or mysteriously appearing in Baikonur (Kazakhstan) during a rocket launch, but without answering persistent questions from reporters. The Russian public couldn’t wait for Anna to finally decide on a real interview and at least tell something.
7. In the photo: Anna with her ex-husband, Briton Alex Chapman, on their wedding day. The girl's wedding dress was based on the dress she was wearing on the day she met Alex in one of the nightclubs in London. After the story of the exposure, the press also showed genuine interest in the spy’s ex-husband. In one of his interviews, Alex Chapman spoke of Anna as a passionate, gentle, and also very smart woman.
8. In the photo: suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman, dressed in the white dress she wore during her first meeting with her ex-husband from the UK.
9. In the photo: Anna Chapman on vacation during her honeymoon in Zimbabwe, where her father Vasily Kushchenko worked as a diplomat.
10. In the photo: Anna against the backdrop of Tower Bridge. According to Alex Chapman, his ex-wife liked Great Britain and “English gentlemen,” but she did not like America and turned her nose away from Hollywood films. Therefore, Alex was amazed that in 2007 Anna moved to live and work in the United States.
11. This photo of Anna standing in Times Square (New York) was downloaded from the Odnoklassniki website.
12. And in this photo from Odnoklassniki, Anna stands against the background of the famous one in New York. The year 2010 was marked by great hype in the press around secret agents and even a peculiar fashion for exposing Russian spies. One of the echoes of the American scandal surrounding Anna Chapman was the accusation of espionage brought by the English side against the Russian woman Ekaterina Zatuliveter.
Anna Chapman, or Anna Kushchenko, was born on February 23, 1982 in the city of Volgograd. From early childhood, the girl had stubbornness and determination. It was these qualities that gave her the opportunity to achieve success. The article will tell a story about who Anna Chapman is (biography of this woman).
Anna's childhood and youth
Anna's father was a diplomat - a serious man with stern views on life. Anna's mother, on the contrary, was a gentle and calm person. The woman taught in high school almost all her life.
When little Anechka went to school, her parents left for Moscow, and left their daughter in Volgograd with her grandmother. The girl studied in many schools - she started with the 11th gymnasium in Volgograd, then entered the art lyceum, and spent the last school year in a Moscow high school. After graduating from school, Anna Chapman, whose biography is interesting to many, enters the Faculty of Economics and Law.
In 2001, the girl met her future husband. Young people meet at one of the parties held in London. Alex Chapman was the name of Anna's chosen one. The young man worked in a British recording studio.
The only obstacle to their relationship was the long distance. Since Anna studied at RUDN University, the young people decided to get married in Moscow.
The girl took her husband's surname. Perhaps this decision was made because her husband was the namesake of the same Mark Chapman, the killer of John Lennon.
As it became known later, the marriage took place not out of love, but according to Anna’s desire to obtain English citizenship. After finishing their studies, the newlyweds went to England.
Life in the UK
Having arrived at their permanent place of residence, the young people did not sit idle. Anna and Alex set up their own money transfer company in Zimbabwe. In other words, Africans living in the UK were able to send funds to their homeland at a fraction of the cost of transferring funds through banks. Thus, several million pounds sterling was transferred over three years of work.
As it became known later, Anna Chapman, whose biography is interesting and varied, together with her husband registered their company under the name of a certain Steve Sugden, who still claims that he has no idea what kind of company it is and who the Chapman couple are.
In 2004, Anna and Alex left their activities. The girl got a job at an aviation company, where she dealt with the sale and rental of aircraft in Russia. However, it later became known that Anna performed less responsible functions - she was the right hand of the assistant.
In 2005, Anna Chapman, whose biography is replete with interesting facts, breaks up with her husband. The reason, as Alex himself stated, was the girl’s excessive desire for well-being, which he, unfortunately, cannot provide her with.
Life in Russia
In 2006, the girl returned to her homeland, where she created a real estate company. It is not yet known where Anna got the funds to open such a business. Some claim that she was sponsored by certain “business angels”, others say that the girl sold all her jewelry.
Chapman wanted to make her company a leader in the real estate industry. But, unfortunately, all her aspirations were in vain. Experts attribute the failure of the project to insufficient refinement of the business model of the company’s website, the marketing component, as well as the lack of interesting content for users.
In 2009, Anna tries to sell the site, but she also fails. It was closed in 2011. It is also known that Anna owed the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper more than 80,000 rubles for failure to fulfill the agreement drawn up.
In 2008, Chapman got a job at KIT Fortis Investments as vice president.
Career in the USA
In 2010, Anna decides to move to the USA. Chapman wants to contribute to the New York real estate market. As one American expert points out, this was just a ruse that Chapman came up with to hide her meetings with “big people.”
After the collapse of a real estate website, Anna is looking for startups in which, as she claims, a lot of money is being invested. But this was just a cover. As the investigation later proved, Chapman had already been noticed more than once in correspondence with one of the Russian UN representatives. Presumably, they exchanged codes and secret information files.
Arrest
In 2010, Anna purchased a cell phone and a fake passport, in which she indicated a fictitious name and address. On the advice of her father, she decides to go to the police and confess everything. After this, the girl is arrested, and along with her other agents of the Russian intelligence service. This was the most notorious failure of the Russian intelligence services abroad. The girl, like other agents, was charged with conducting intelligence activities in the United States.
Anna Chapman. REN-TV, political activities
In 2010, Chapman was deprived and in the same year, according to Belkin, Anna is working on the topic of protecting the Earth from meteorites, steroids and other equally important factors that can influence the planet from the outside.
At the same time, Chapman joins the Young Guard of United Russia party, where he is engaged in the patriotic education of youth.
In 2011, the program “Secrets of the World with Anna Chapman” was broadcast on the REN-TV channel as part of the documentary project “Reality”.
Anna Chapman. Personal life
After breaking up with her first husband Alex, Anna cannot find her chosen one for a long time. It is only known that in London the girl met with many rich men. Among them is the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. At the moment, Anna Chapman's personal life remains behind a veil of secrecy.
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