The full video is available at the official Maxim website –maximonline.ru from October 21. The full interview with Anna Chapman and the revealing photo session can be found in the issue due to be published on October 22.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reported today she "has been called a real-life Bond girl" and had played up to her glamorous image by posing in her underwear."

Chapman was one of 10 Russian spies exchanged for four Western agents released by Moscow in a spy swap on the tarmac at Vienna airport with echoes of the Soviet era.

They were expelled from the US after pleading guilty in a Manhattan court to conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country.

Earlier this month, Chapman made a surprise appearance dressed in an attention grabbing red coat at the remote Baikonur cosmodrome for the launch of a Russian rocket carrying a Russian-American crew into space.

FondServisBank, which works with Russian companies in the aerospace industry, said that it had hired Ms Chapman to work for the bank, bringing innovation to its information technologies.

On Sunday, Dmity Medvedev, the Russian president, awarded  Chapman and her fellow spies medals for their service.