National security risks can come from many directions - and state Duma deputy Andrei Lebedev fears that extraterrestrials may have compromised Russia's official secrets.

After hearing a TV interview in which the President of the Kalmyk Republic, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, spoke of his meeting with an alien spaceship, Lebedev called for instant action.

This is the best stuff to come out of Russia in a while. Will he be carted off to the new Russian psychological gulag?  Or, will he unleash something that goes well beyond Russia?   To read the rest of the article, click here.