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  Encyclopedia: Federal Security Service (Russia)
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции or ФСБ, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, FSB) is a state security organisation in Russia, the successor to the KGB by way of the FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки), Federal Counterintelligence Service).
Following the coup of 1991, the KGB was dismantled and ceased to exist after November 1991.
Federal Law of April 3, 1995, "On the Organs of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation" changed the FSK into the Federal Security Service (FSB) and made the new service a much more powerful organization.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Federal-Security-Service-(Russia)   (566 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Russia - Federal Security Service (FSB) - Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information ...
The FSK was replaced by the Federal Security Service (Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti--FSB) in April 1995.
Russia's fourteen investigative detention prisons and several special troop detachments also returned to the control of the security service.
Article 23 of the law stipulated that the president, the Federal Assembly (parliament), and the judicial organs monitor the security service.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/russia/russia205.html   (994 words)

  
 kgb russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One ground cited is that the Church inside Russia had permitted itself to be unacceptably compromised.
As of 2003, Khodorkovsky is the wealthiest man in Russia, and the 26th wealthiest man in the world...
Russia`s War Overy gained exclusive access to previously unavailable information from the former KGB, GRU, and presidential archives to assemble this definitive...
www.russiaresources.com /russia/kgb+russia   (1104 words)

  
 RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2005/08/01 :: Safety fear overruled for Putin\'s floating reactors
Russia is to start building the world’s first floating nuclear power plant next year to supply electricity to its remote northern coast.
Environmental groups say that the power plants will be an unprecedented environmental and security hazard because they will be moored in remote ports and would be hard to reach in the event of an accident or terrorist attack.
Russia has an unenviable record of nuclear and naval accidents, including the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk in 2000, and has suffered terrorist attacks by Chechen rebels.
www.rusnet.nl /news/2005/08/01/currentaffairs04.shtml   (674 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Karimov focused on losses among security personnel and stressed that the attackers were Islamic extremists from an offshoot of the banned extremist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir.
"Russia is a country which is still groping painfully for a national project and self-identification as a nation," said Masha Lipman, an analsyt at the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow.
They reportedly stormed the meeting place as state security agents watched and filmed their attack; one assailant attacked and nearly severed the tongue of of Mansur Ossanlu, one of the founding members of the bus firm's trade union, the ICFTU stated.
www.rferl.org /reports/ucs/2005/05/8-180505.asp   (6478 words)

  
 Federal Security Service (FSB) - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Federal Security Service (FSB) - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
Service for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism - Aleksandr Bragin
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation by Gordon Bennett
www.fas.org /irp/world/russia/fsb   (63 words)

  
 ORANGE REVOLUTION :: Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Georgia, duly instructed by the presidents of the two states discussed the wide spectrum of issues of the Russo-Georgian relations in a spirit of friendship and prospective cooperation.
Not only was she infuriated at Russia's unwillingness to drop criminal charges against her, part of Moscow's interference in last year's Ukrainian presidential election, but also there were other, more important reasons of national pride.
Excerpts: The Moldovan communists, now cut off from Russia by a democratic Ukraine, say they have broken with Putin, but their Titoesque independent communism may be falling in the face of the Orange tide.
www.orangerevolution.us /blog/Russia   (2592 words)

  
 CNS - Chart: Al-Qa`ida's WMD Activities
Bin Ladin is supposedly engaged in a comprehensive plan to acquire nuclear weapons, and reportedly has given a group of Chechens $30 million in cash and two tons of opium in exchange for approximately 20 nuclear warheads.
According to the 9/11 Commission, al-Qa'ida operatives in Afghanistan prior to the 9/11 attacks were considering ways of using WMD, including mustard and cyanide, against Jews in Iran, "forcing Russian sceintists to fire a nuclear-armed missile at the U.S.", and using air conditioning systems in buildings to pump poisonous gas.
The intelligence agency of an unnamed European country reportedly intercepts a shipment of approximately twenty nuclear warheads--originating from Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and the Ukraine--intended for Bin Ladin and the Taliban regime of Afghanistan.
cns.miis.edu /pubs/other/sjm_cht.htm   (4725 words)

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