Got a financial crisis on your hands?  Why not whip up a moral panic by accusing the United States of spying on state television to distract every one?  Seems to be going pretty well for Hugo Chavez, so why not Russia?

From the Associated Press:

A documentary on Russian state television has accused the U.S. of using an air base in Kyrgyzstan to spy on Russia and China — an allegation a spokesman for the base flatly denied on Monday.

The film, aired Sunday on the Rossiya TV channel, showed a building it said was used for electronic surveillance and identified a woman it said worked in the U.S. Embassy as a CIA agent. (…)