MOSCOW, Dec 22: Seductive Russian spy Anna Chapman on Wednesday won a key role in a pro-Kremlin youth group, telling her fellow young patriots that it was time to transform the future with a smile.

Chapman, booted out of the United States along with nine other Russian spies in July, became a member of the social council of the Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard) youth group at its fourth congress, it said on its website.

The Molodaya Gvardiya has its roots in the Soviet-era Komsomol youth group and was revived in the late 1990s to mobilise “patriotic” youth to support the authorities under Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

It is now part of Russia's ruling party United Russia, whose overall leader is Putin.

Addressing the young delegates at the conference, Chapman, 28, used language reminiscent of Soviet rallying calls to the proletariat to urge her fellow youths to have a positive attitude to life.

“My hope is that we start to be positive. We spent so much energy becoming a great power. We must be joyful about each coming day, each time there is a chance to create something new and useful.” “We must transform the future, starting with ourselves!” Chapman, dressed in a tight red-and-black outfit with a zipper front told the audience in comments broadcast on state television.—AFP