Max Otto von Stierlitz (Russian: Шти́рлиц, IPA: [ˈʂtʲirlʲɪts]) is the lead character in a popular Russian book series written in the 1960s by novelist Yulian Semyonov and of the television adaptation Seventeen Moments of Spring, starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov, as well as in feature films, produced in the Soviet era, and in a number of sequels and prequels. Other actors portrayed Stierlitz in several other films. Stierlitz has become a stereotypical spy in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, similar to James Bond in Western culture.
I thought so! I was noticing how Butina’s graphics resembled the Bond Movie ‘In Her Majesties Secret Service’. Putin is a James Bond freak. How about Trump? Putin’s smirk was noticed at the news conference. He got his man!
There a good chance that one of three adults you see in public voted for Trump, and, have given Putin a warm welcome into the Trump Family. Half of those folks, are evangelicals. This is like ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You got to wake up – and stay awake! We need to go on the attack. THEY want what we got. These are RED PAROTS! I think Putin and Trump should drop LSD together. I will be their guide. I can boost their mind-power ten fold. Being related to IAN FLEMMING puts me in the Catbird’s Seat. I am a real asset to my Democracy! Am I afraid? No! I saw the future in my book ‘The Gideon Computer’.
Trump is posing for Putin when he walks with the Queen. Is he bi-sexual? You have to wonder if Trump bought himself a Bionic Dick. We are the same age, and, I could use one. Do I have a price – alas? Here’s another T.V. series
‘The Bionic Dick Brothers’
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President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording.
The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid on Mr. Cohen’s office. The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohen’s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors want to know whether that violated federal campaign finance laws, and any conversation with Mr. Trump about those payments would be of keen interest to them.
The recording’s existence further draws Mr. Trump into questions about tactics he and his associates used to keep aspects of his personal and business life a secret. And it highlights the potential legal and political danger that Mr. Cohen represents to Mr. Trump. Once the keeper of many of Mr. Trump’s secrets, Mr. Cohen is now seen as increasingly willing to consider cooperating with prosecutors.
Image copyright Alamy While generations of Westerners were growing up on the films of James Bond, Soviet citizens had their own favourite spy, a wartime agent who went under the name of Max Otto von Stierlitz. And it could easily have been Stierlitz who prompted Vladimir Putin to join the KGB, writes Dina Newman.
The USSR’s answer to James Bond was a very different kind of spy. He had no time for women or gadgets. His life was devoted entirely to his work in Berlin in World War Two, where, under cover, he infiltrated the German high command.
Stierlitz was the hero of a 12-part series, Seventeen Moments of Spring, screened on Soviet TV every year around 9 May – the date the USSR marked as the end of World War Two.
The first broadcast, in 1973, was watched by an estimated 50 to 80 million people.
“Every evening the streets were deserted and people rushed home from work to watch the latest episode and to find out what would happen next,” says Eleonora Shashkova, one of the stars of the series.
Rosamond Press 
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