Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman is being accused of plagiarism.

Russian bloggers said her column in the best-selling Komsomolskaya Pravda daily appears to have been copied from a book.

The 29-year-old, who was deported from the United States last year along with nine other Russian sleeper agents, has been keeping a high profile in Russia, modelling and taking a role in the pro-Kremlin youth movement.

In her column about the 19th century poet Alexander Pushkin, who died in a duel with a French officer in 1837, Chapman mirrors an article in a book by pro-Kremlin spin doctor Oleg Matveyechev almost word for word, arguing that the 1917 revolution and the ensuing bloodshed could have been prevented if Pushkin had been around to write his "mature works".

Chapman's office was not available for comment.