<p><br /> Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman has made her debut on the political stage.<br /> </p><p><br /> The flame-haired 28-year-old was announced the leader of the "Molodaya Gvardia" or Young Guards, the youth wing of prime minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party.<br /> </p><p><br /> The announcement was made at a northern Moscow exhibition centre, where party members enjoyed a disco-like setting to celebrate the end of their thee-day convention.<br /> </p><p><br /> Chapman, wearing a red dress with long black velvet sleeves, took to the stage and spoke briefly to hundreds of party members.<br /> </p><p><br /> Molodaya Gvardia, which is the youth party that leads into the ruling party United Russia, is comprised of members aged 18 to 30.<br /> </p><p><br /> Chapman, 28, is said to focus on working with "patriots and young businesspeople," in the party which pledges allegiance to Mr Putin.<br /> </p><p><br /> She has enjoyed by far the most public profile of all the ten 'sleeper' agents arrested in the US in the summer, having won a consulting job at a Russian bank and starred in a seductive lingerie photo shoot with the Russian-language edition of Maxim magazine.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Putin rallied to the defence of Chapman and the nine other Russian spies after they were expelled from the US, and promised them all important work in their homeland.<br /> </p>
