Russian Director Vows To Quit Cinema After `Hysteria` Over TV Spy Thriller
(World News Russia)

MOSCOW -- Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents battle fifth columnists and CIA "sleeper" cells bent on sowing chaos and torpedoing a gas deal with China. Americans seeking a "colored revolution" try to frame Russia for the assassination of an anticorruption campaigner resembling opposition activist Aleksei Navalny. And Russian diplomats perish in an Islamist militant attack on Moscow`s embassy in Libya. Russian viewers got all that and more when state TV debuted its new spy drama Sleepers (Spyashi) earlier this month, boasting storylines oozing with conspiracy and U.S. spooks providing the perfect foil to Russia`s guardians of law, sovereignty, and national...