11.   He then names Vladimir Putin, a former spy and head of the main successor agency to the KGB.

12.   His image as a tough-talking former KGB spy, they added, will make it easier for him to pursue a liberal economic agenda.

13.   However, having a number of former spies running the country has alarmed human rights campaigners.

14.   However, he said it did not cover the entire, vast array of former spies under investigation.

15.   In this one, Bond battles to save the world from a wayward former spy in control of a satellite capable of mass destruction.

16.   It also came amid mounting fears that under Putin, a former KGB spy, hard won freedoms like freedom of speech and press are in mortal peril.

17.   Nuclear terrorism, high-tech weapons, the Russian Mafia and an international cabal of former spies appear to be involved.

18.   President Vladimir Putin took the role of a leader, and former spy, who backs his intelligence chiefs.

19.   Putin, a former KGB spy, is seen as a much tougher figure who is known for leaning on regional leaders.

20.   Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin still wears the perpetually bland expression only a former KGB spy such as he could love.