It shouldn’t be any surprise that some reactions in Russia to the arrest of 10 alleged spies are arguing for a conspiracy theory:

“This strongly resembles a struggle of opposition forces against President Obama,” said Gennady Gudkov, a lawmaker and former official in the FSB, the main domestic successor to the Soviet-era KGB. “It is absolutely obvious that the U.S. president is under fire by the anti-Russia lobby, which doesn’t want our bilateral relations to improve.”