{"id":67614,"date":"2026-02-28T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/the-russian-honeytrap-alleged-spy-for-moscow-faces-five-years-in-us-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:07:56","slug":"the-russian-honeytrap-alleged-spy-for-moscow-faces-five-years-in-us-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/the-russian-honeytrap-alleged-spy-for-moscow-faces-five-years-in-us-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian honeytrap: alleged spy for Moscow faces five years in US prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomma Zarubina, convicted of lying to the FBI, is the latest Russian woman accused of using her sexual wiles for spying<\/p>\n<p>Nomma Zarubina, 35, now sits in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a> jail awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to charges that she lied to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> about her contacts with the FSB, Russia\u2019s biggest domestic intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>But, in a playbook that comes straight from the cold war, the striking-looking Zarubina \u2013 known as \u201cAlyssa\u201d to her Russian handlers \u2013 was tasked with meeting prominent Americans in order to lure them into the orbit of Moscow intelligence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/russian-honeytrap-spy-prison-fbi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomma Zarubina, convicted of lying to the FBI, is the latest Russian woman accused of using her sexual wiles for spying Nomma Zarubina, 35, now sits in a New York jail awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to charges that she lied to the FBI about her contacts with the FSB, Russia\u2019s biggest domestic &#8230; <a title=\"The Russian honeytrap: alleged spy for Moscow faces five years in US prison\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/the-russian-honeytrap-alleged-spy-for-moscow-faces-five-years-in-us-prison\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Russian honeytrap: alleged spy for Moscow faces five years in US prison\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}