Update: An AnnaFermanova.com web site has been set up to help off set legal costs.
I knew North Texas had a Russian spy too. Anna Femanova is under house arrest at her parents’ home in Plano after authorities at JFK International Airport, “found a Raptor night vision weapons sight and two advanced rifle sights stuffed in a pair of UGG boots,” The Dallas Morning News reports. Femanova, a Latvian ex-patriate who studied cosmetology in North Texas, lives with her husband in Moscow. And she doesn’t like being dubbed ”America’s new sexy Russian spy” according to reports. “She is quite sexy, you could say, but she is not a spy,” Fermanova’s Addison-based attorney, Scott Palmer, told The News. The equipment she carried out of the United States into Russia require a license which Fermanova didn’t have. The serial numbers on the items were also blacked out. She says the night vision equipment was for a friend who is a hunting enthusiast. Palmer told CBS 11 they “hunt bears at night” and it’s expensive to buy high tech hunting equipment in Russia. OK. Not only are the new generation of Russian spies kind of lame, they’re not even good spies anymore. Hiding scopes in a pair of UGGs and living in the burbs of New York and Seattle and now Collin County. Is this all some sort of mass PR campaign for Salt? Because that I could buy into that. Aren’t we over the Cold War with Russia? Didn’t that end like a decade ago? Maybe someone needs to tell the Russians we’ve moved on to another area of the world. The good times or spying and espionage are over. These wannabees may be rogue agents but the next time you smuggle in night vision equipment to Moscow you may not want to hide them in a pair of boots that go through an x-ray machine, Anna. (But I have a feeling this kid is a victim of bad timing and poor choices and the media really wants to play up that “sexy” image.) Jeez. Come on Russia! Step up your game a little. It’s not even fun anymore. And does every good looking girl going into Russia have to be a spy? Why aren’t they just calling her a hot smuggler? Or a young woman who made some really bad choices and is paying the consequences for multiple misconceptions.
