Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko attacked by communists

The Ukrainian-born actress Olga Kurylenko (pictured), who stars opposite Daniel Craig in the latest Bond caper Quantum of Solace, has been attacked by the Russian Communist Party for aiding "the killer of hundreds of Soviet people and their allies". Apparently oblivious to OO7's fictional nature, the party accuses her of assisting "a man who worked for decades under the orders of Thatcher and Reagan to destroy the USSR".

In an appeal to the actress on its website, the St Petersburg wing of the party said: "The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you and brought you up for free but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal. How could you desert your homeland in its moment of need? Do you really want Crimean girls to be raped by cruel and stupid American marines? Where is your patriotism?"

The communists are, however, in a forgiving mood — if she delivers her co-star, Daniel Craig, into the clutches of Russia's secret services for interrogation. "Let him tell what other plans are being written in the Pentagon and Hollywood to discredit Russia and drive a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples."

It would be almost funny if it were a joke, but Sergei Malinkovich, leader of the St Petersburg communist party, is apparently deadly serious. He told the Times: "Everyone knows that the CIA and MI6 finance James Bond films as a special operation of psychological warfare against us. This Ukrainian girl sleeps with Bond and that means that Ukraine is sleeping with the West."

It is not the first time the communists of St Petersburg — or Leningrad, as they would probably prefer it — have taken aim at Western films. Earlier this year they claimed that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set in the Cold War in 1957, was a vehicle for crude anti-Soviet propaganda and lambasted the antics of Harrison Ford and his ruthless Russian nemesis Cate Blanchett, calling them capitalist puppets.