Russian TV is airing a knockoff of The Americans featuring a CIA sleeper cell in Moscow

The Atlantic

Titled Sleepers, the Russian take on The Americans imagines a CIA sleeper cell wreaking havoc in Moscow. According to Kevin Volkl, Sleepers has become "a justification for the Kremlin’s aggressive spy games overseas. The series revolves around the CIA’s activation of an American sleeper cell in Moscow and, more broadly, the agency’s plot to destabilize Russian society. In the first episode, Russia’s embassy in Libya is sacked and its staff killed, and a young pigtailed Russian girl is blown up by militants—all courtesy of the CIA. A disclaimer before the first episode insists that all characters are fictitious and that any coincidences are random. But the echoes of real-life events are unmistakable."