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| | FSB - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | 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). |
 | | One of the most powerful organizations in the Soviet system, the KGB was charged with fighting the enemies of the regime, as well as with intelligence and counterintelligence. |
 | | 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 (985 words) |
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