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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The presence of the FSB is felt everywhere in the country: the word in the news, conversations, rumors and whispers.
		A half an hour later director of the FSB Patrushev made an official statement, in which he said that the incident in Ryazan was not a terrorist attack rather it was an exercise of the FSB and that there were no explosives, and the detonator was a plaster cast.
		Though the FSB insists that the motives of the killings were strictly commercial, t h e fact that the victims of three most discussed murders in the past years were all representatives of liberal, democratic parties makes it looks like the FSB was just getting rid of political opponents.
	www.humanrights-fsu.com /FSB.doc (5173 words)

	CNN.com - Russia spy chiefs hail cooperation - Aug. 13, 2003
		Russia's security service said the "sting" operation that smashed an alleged plot to smuggle a surface-to-air missile into the U.S. marked "a new stage in cooperation" between spy agencies of East and West.
		In Moscow Wednesday, the FSB and the Kremlin declined specifically to comment on the "sting" operation, which Ignatchenko said was conducted by the FBI in conjunction with the FSB.
		One example of growing cooperation between the FSB and CIA was shown in June 2001 when security was stepped up around President Bush after Russia warned of a possible assassination attempt at the G8 summit at Genoa, Italy, by supporters of Osama Bin Laden.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/13/russia.fsb/index.html (919 words)

	Putin, Russian Democracy, FSB - Johnson's Russia List 6-28-02
		On Tuesday, as President Putin was heading for Canada, the Russian Supreme Court upheld the decision of a court in the city of Vladivostok that sentenced journalist and environmental whistle blower Grigory Pasko to four years in a strict, regime labour camp on charges of treason.
		The FSB claims that the former general Kalugin revealed secrets about operations and agents in the United States, where he worked for a number of years as a KGB intelligence officer.
		The fact that the culprits were never found and that the FSB was subsequently caught red-handed with explosives in an apartment building in the city of Ryazan (the FSB claimed it was just a "training exercise") led Mr.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6326-5.cfm (1103 words)

	FSB (Russia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anti-Putin critics have accused the FSB of involvement in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings following the arrest of three of the organisation's operatives who had planted a large bomb at the basement of an apartment complex in the town of Ryazan.
		Former Russian member of the FSB, Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned on November 1, 2006, and later died on November 23, 2006 in the UK.
		Yeltsin appointed Colonel-General Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov as the new director of the FSB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FSB_(Russia) (1137 words)

	Federal security service (FSB)
		According to the law "On bodies of federal service of security in RF" FSB is a forces composition of Russian Federation security provision and within the frameworks of the given to them full powers they provide the personality, society and state security.
		FSB is a federal body of the executive, a lower organization in charge of RF President directly.
		FSB also has the right to be engaged in the intelligence activity - "within the framework of its full powers and in cooperation with the bodies of Russian Federation external intelligence on purpose to get information about Russian Federation security dangers".
	www.agentura.ru /english/dosie/fsb (198 words)

	Russian federal security service or FSB in Russia on RussiansAbroad.com
		The law gave the FSB the right to conduct intelligence operations both within the country and abroad for the purpose of "enhancing the economic, scientific-technical and defense potential" of Russia.
		Although FSB intelligence operations abroad are to be carried out in collaboration with the Foreign Intelligence Service, the specifics of the collaboration were not spelled out.
		Although the FSB is more powerful than its predecessor, FSB chief Stepashin operated under a political cloud because of his support for the botched Chechnya invasion.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_368.html (440 words)

	Moscow names British 'spies' in NGO row \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		An FSB spokesman confirmed to the Guardian that his agency had accused the four men of being spies.
		The FSB officer said the device did not work properly, causing the four diplomats to visit the square regularly in the autumn.
		The Kremlin says NGOs are a front for spying; last year the FSB accused the British medical relief charity Merlin of espionage, a claim it firmly denies.
	www.guardian.co.uk /russia/article/0,,1692867,00.html (729 words)

	Religioscope - > FSB (ex-KGB) renews interest in religion
		During a subsequent meeting at the FSB's Omsk city premises, according to Fr Sergi, the same officer asked about the activity of the Catholic Churchwith a view to ascertaining whether it could provoke religious extremists, "within the Moscow Patriarchate in particular".
		The FSB officer also reportedly asked for the names of teachers in higher educational institutions frequenting Omsk's Catholic parish and questioned him about the German Catholic charitable foundation Renovabis.
		Contacted on 15 November, the FSB officer concerned answered Keston's questions but did not wish to be quoted.
	www.religioscope.com /notes/2002/106_fsb_rel.htm (805 words)

	FSB Targets CI Centre Professor Oleg Kalugin
		The FSB has asked Oleg Kalugin, a former head of the KGB's Foreign Intelligence Division who emigrated to the United States in 1995, to return to Moscow by 28 March.
		Former FSB officer Litvinenko, currently living in Great Britain, is charged with abuse of office, forgery, theft and illegal possession of weapons.
		Litvinenko is known for spilling the beans on FSB’s alleged plot to assassinate influential businessman Boris Berezovsky.
	www.cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_FSB_Targets_Kalugin.htm (5893 words)

	Russia: President Putin Cracks Down (int'l edition)
		The agency's leaders, FSB Director Nikolai P. Patrushev and First Deputy Victor V. Cherkesov, KGB veterans and close Putin loyalists, are fashioning plans that would recombine under one roof all or most of the parts of the KGB that were split into separate agencies by Yeltsin.
		Recently, an FSB officer tried to recruit an NTV journalist, using as leverage her son's brush with police in a purse-snatching case.
		In Russia, the FSB operates out of the Lubyanka, the KGB's old fortress in central Moscow, where political prisoners were executed.
	www.businessweek.com /2000/00_14/b3675013.htm (2265 words)

	Russia Blog
		Russia Blog will try to explain why this usually peaceful town of 40,000 has been guarded around the clock for two weeks by SWAT teams and army units, and why dozens of Russian members of Parliament, human rights activists and anti-immigration groups have entered the fray.
		FSB investigators still don’t know the grand total of the governor’s illicit funds; however this arrest was just the first in a series for arrests and forced resignations for several prominent Russian politicians.
		Ingushetia, Russia – three police officers were shot in a small town of Malgobek; two officers are dead, another one is in critical condition.
	www.russiablog.org /crime (6550 words)

	Pravda.RU FSB relies on popular support
		A source in the Kremlin said that Russia was interested in strengthening the union of Serbia and Montenegro.
		Russia and the European Union plan to carry out investigations on integrating Russian and European energy systems before 2006, the press department of the Russian Energy Ministry announced after a meeting between Russian Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko and EU Director General for Energy and Transport Francois Lamoureux More details...
		The President of Russia should be concerned with eliminating poverty according to 37% of those interviewed by the ROMIR Monitoring Company in May of this year.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/06/02/54253.html (1973 words)

	FSB Organization - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
		The FSB is one of the few Russian government institutions that retains the vertical structure of federal control, with Administrations at the Oblast level, despite the desire of local leaders to subordinate these territorial directorates to their interests.
		The FSB Antiterrorist Center is a special unit, formed in 1995, that encompasses FSB combat and operational counter-terrorist units.
		Russia's premier counterterrorist group, Alpha is now assigned to the FSB, after changes in subordination and status following Alpha's ambiguous role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/russia/fsb-org.htm (897 words)

	AMPP: Marx, Lenin, and Stalin
		Russia was already highly corrupt under Boris Yeltsin but, according to IDEM, an independent Russian think tank, with the rise in oil prices the level of corruption in Russia between 2002 and 2005 increased 900%.
		He received visitors from Russia, was able to comment knowledgably on the actions of the FSB in Moscow, and refused to be intimidated.
		Russia is not the Soviet Union, and 2004 is not 1946.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/communism1.html (22065 words)

	Federal Security Service (FSB) - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
		The Federal Security Service (FSB - Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, previously known as Federal Counterintelligence Service - FSK) is one of the successors of the KGB, and remains haedquarterd in the Lubyanka.
		Barsukov took over the leadership of the FSB from Sergei Stepashin in July 1995 in the wake of the Budennovsk hostage crisis.
		After his nomination to the FSB, Kovalev told the news media that he saw the emphasis of his activities in the economic security of Russia and in the fight against corruption.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/russia/fsb.htm (756 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Russian security service reports it barefaced spying activity by four British diplomats
		The officer, who refused to give his name, confirmed Russian news reports that cited FSB chief Sergei Ignatchenko, as saying that the activities were discovered during an operation in Moscow.
		The officer, who refused to give his name, confirmed Russian news reports that cited FSB chief Sergei Ignatchenko, as saying that the activities were discovered during an operation in Moscow More details...
		Russia's space agency has postponed the launch of the next manned mission to the international space station by one week, to March 30, a spokesman said Monday according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2006/01/23/71608.html (2451 words)

	FSB - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the Federal Security Service) is the state security organization in Russia, charged with intelligence, counterintelligence, and combating crime (the latter mainly being organized crime, terrorist activities, illegal drug and arms trafficking, contraband, and corruption).
		The head of the FSB is appointed by the President.
		Andrei Lugovoi, the former Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) operative and the businessman now reported by the Western media to be linked to the poisoning and death in the UK of his former colleague Alexander Litvinenko, refuted those allegations in an exclusive interview to Russia Today.
	www.mosnews.com /mn-files/fsb.shtml (996 words)

	Europe and Central Asia Cases 2004
		FSB officials accused Podrabinek of obstructing the investigation by refusing to answer their questions but have not yet pressed criminal charges against him.
		In November 2002, the FSB raided the paper’s offices after it published an investigation into the activities of Russian security services during the October 2002 Nord-Ost theater hostage crisis in Moscow, during which more than 100 people died after the government used nerve gas to disarm Chechen rebels who were holding civilians hostage.
		Because FSB agents had confiscated Bagrov's travel documents in the August 25 raid, he was unable to travel to Chechnya to report on the elections.
	www.cpj.org /cases04/europe_cases04/russia.html (4518 words)

	USNews.com: Mortimer B. Zuckerman: The conundrum of Russia
		Putin himself, of course, is a former head of the FSB.
		Russia provides nearly half of Europe's natural gas and a third of its oil.
		Putin has consolidated the state's grip over national television, turned the upper house of parliament into an appointed body, vitiated the power of locally elected regional governors, effectively seized control of the courts, and developed a form of state capitalism that tolerates private companies only if they are subservient to the state's agenda.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/articles/060313/13edit.htm (557 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - FSB confirms elimination of Al Qaeda's emissary in N. Caucasus -1
		Abu Hafs was the last close aide to the notorious terrorist Khattab, the FSB said.
		Khattab was directly involved in preparing and perpetrating an attack on Chechnya's capital Grozny in August 1996, as well as a terrorist attack on Buinaksk in December 1997.
		After Khattab was killed, Abu Hafs was an organizer of terrorist activity in the North Caucasus and was preparing terrorist acts on the territory of Dagestan, the FSB said.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20061126/56007012.html (248 words)

	'Mr. Hexogen' (Continued) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the contrary, the FSB (Russia's Federal Security Service) and supportive organizations are spreading their tentacles to Europe and America.
		In reality, the FSB wants to "silence" a dangerous person, a former KGB insider, who knows many secrets and is capable of supporting the claims against the FSB in the apartment bombing case.
		By the way, during Putin's period as president, between mid-1999 and late April 2002, the population of Russia, by official figures, decreased from 146 million to 143.7 million (the level in early 1985) and is still falling.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/7/22/160751.shtml (1722 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - FSB opens inquiry into spying device
		The FSB said it had confiscated a fake rock containing electronic equipment used for espionage on January 23, and had uncovered a ring of four British spies who worked under diplomatic cover, funding human rights organizations operating in Russia.
		The FSB also said it had identified a Russian national contracted by the British intelligence services while on a business trip abroad where he had been supplied with spying devices.
		The park where the fake rock was planted was frequently visited by embassy officials last autumn, according to the FSB.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20060130/43250990.html (412 words)

	Russia
		Yeltsin had been re-elected on 3 July 1996 for a four-year term.[2] Previously, Putin was appointed Acting Prime Minister by President Yeltsin on 9 August 1999 and was formally approved by the Duma on 16 August 1999 by a vote of 233-84 with 17 deputies abstaining.
		On 1 July 2003, the Federal Border Service became a department of the Federal Security Service, in accordance with Presidential Edict No. 203 On Measures for the Improvement of the Administration in the Area of the Security of the Russian Federation of 11 March 2003.
		VEK was subordinated to the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade on 17 May 2000.
	www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/govt/executiv.htm (1270 words)

	AllRefer.com - Russia - Federal Security Service (FSB) - Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information ...
		Although FSB intelligence operations abroad are to b e carried out in collaboration with the Foreign Intelligence Service, the specifics of the collaboration were not spelled out.
		The FSB's enabling law mandated that it detect signals from radio-electronic transmitters, carry out cipher work within its own agency, and protect coded information in other state organizations and even private enterprises.
		No specific boundary between the ciphering and communications functions of the two agencies was delineated in their enabling legislation, and there was even speculation that FAPSI would be merged into the FSB.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/russia/russia205.html (994 words)

	Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
		According to the intelligence, Mario Scaramella is a close associate of the FSB deputy chief Viktor Komogorov and visited the FSB headquarters in Moscow several times.
		Litvinenko served in the FSB in the directorate of surveillance of criminal organizations till 1998 when he declared that the leadership of the secret service had ordered him and several subordinates to kill the controversial Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
		Later he was dismissed from the FSB and arrested on charges in storage of explosives and "violent methods of obtaining confession from suspects", however the court justified Litvinenko.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=1123 (1740 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Profile: Russia's secret police
		FSB are the initial letters of the Russian words Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti - Federal Security Service - the country's secret police.
		The cold-war cliche of a man in a trilby hat and a poorly tailored coat lurking in a doorway is a thing of the past.
		Like many Soviet institutions, the FSB suffered in the chaotic years of the 1990s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6169414.stm (616 words)

	Anne Applebaum -- Secret Agent Man
		Equally, several of Russia's major businessmen are believed to have begun their careers with KGB money, although naming them would bring a hailstorm of libel suits upon this magazine.
		Notable is the case of Russia's former chief prosecutor, whom mysterious sources filmed cavorting with prostitutes just as his investigations were drawing closer to the personal finances of Boris Yeltsin an incident which took place when oneVladimir Putin was running the FSB.
		As for harassment of uncomfortable, unfavourable press, that has long been a fact of life in Russia's provinces: on a visit to Volgograd a few years ago, I asked a television journalist whether she, as a state employee most regional television is state-owned could report news unfavourable to the local government.
	www.anneapplebaum.com /politics/2000/04_10_weekst_kgb.html (2331 words)

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