Russian Spy Watching in London

The Russian Spy Watchers are first turning their gazes to London, the capital of the country the Daily Mail described as "teeming" with Russian spies. It is here in the capital city that politics is done and NATO documents are changing hands-- almost always, unwittingly, to Russians spies.

Today's news is of Kairat Abusseitov, the top Kazakh diplomat, London attache, and Russian spy, discovered on Saturday to have been spying for Russia for the last twenty years. He is one of countless other spies from the Содружество Независимых Государств (also known as the "Commonwealth of Independent States", or CIS). Several of such spies have been expelled throughout the years but trillions more remain safely undercover.

CIS executive secretary Sergei Lebedev (see right, stars on "this is what Russian spy looks like" cycling slideshow) has more than proved himself to Chief Russian Spy Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin since his appointment. There were understandable initial reservations, as Sergei had not joined the КГБ (KGB) voluntarily as Putin had.

The news of Mister Abusseitov's "outing" as a Russian spy comes only a few days after the USAmerica reported that it had spied two nuclear Russian submarines seemingly spying on its eastern coast. The Kremlin explained this as a harmless training exercise, but the submarines nevertheless headed north to spy on Canada last night under a cloud of suspicion.

This has likely compromised the mission, as secrecy is understood to be of the utmost importance to Russian spies.