Born in 1955, Yirina Portnova graduated in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building in 1971 at the age of 16. later, she was awarded a PhD in Cryptography from the Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School. It was during this period that she was recruited by the KGB and worked in the Second Chief Directorate, receiving training in counterintelligence and spy craft. Mostly serious but some flirting can side by. enemy of CIA during the cold war. 26 years old.