When she was a spy hiding in the U.S., Anna Chapman used social media to help her hide undercover. Now, back in her home country, she's using it to help coordinate her growing personal and commercial empire.
When last we left her, America's favorite deportee and sleeper agent was gearing up to join Kremlin boss-for-life Vladimir Putin and represent his United Russia party in the Russian parliament. She's just launched a new website (www.annachapman.ru) and come back to Twitter (@ChapmanAnna) and Facebook.
In her welcome message, she sticks to the kind safe, airy platitudes she uses in political appearances.
"Before returning to Moscow in July 2010, I aspired to personal harmony and was more concerned with my own happiness," Chapman's homepage reads, according to a Christian Science Monitor translation. "But in due course my ideology changed. I came to understand that fulfillment in life comes from helping those around me."
Her site, complete with photostream, projects section and blog, serves as a convenient portal for you to catch on all things Anna, from her TV appearances to her charity work. Thus far, we can't find links to buy any of the Anna-Brand clothes, perfume and vodka that's she's been hawking.
The rollout also marks Chapman's return to social media.
Alas, she has not added Danger Room as a friend on Facebook and so we're unable to report on what her Facebook page looks like. We can only guess that it's a little more PG than the one Anna used as a spy in New York since she was reportedly embarrassed by the racy photos taken from it after her arrest.
When she was in the United States, Anna stuck to her cover as a New York real estate businesswoman and hung out with an upscale crowd in the fairly lackluster pursuit of American national security secrets. In the U.K., she reportedly tried to weasel into the company of Princes William and Harry.
On Twitter now, the circle she follows skews towards science, technology and venture capital types. Anna's follows include, Scientific American, TechCrunch, a blog about technology startups, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Kevin Rose, a venture capitalist and founder of Digg.com.
Maybe she's just trying to stay on top of her responsibilities as a technology advisor for a Russian bank. Or maybe you're next on her target list, nerds.
Photo: annachapman.ru
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