FSB
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- noun
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Servicio Federal de Seguridad (FSB)
- The FSB is involved.
- FSB Security Service
- Russian FSB
- FSB Service
Whoever got up and left the room or spies K GB FSB, internal security.
- Whoever got up and left the room or spies K GB FSB, internal security.
- Undercover CIA or undercover FSB, undercover anything you probably do.
- Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB FSB agent, had the story.
- And, and I mean, well, that wasn't, that was FSB by then and the KGB was long since dissolved.
- Gru is officially what, what within Russia you have the FSB and then the Gru's tasks list is like what?
- Putin is a manipulative, devious products of the KGB and the FSB.
- The scree pals the couple in in in the UK who were former FSBK, GB FSB operatives who were also poisoned.
- So Russia, with the help of the KGB, the FSB figures out how to break into these collection bottles.
- They've already agreed to take FSB seriously.
Examples
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I'm Chief Agent Yuri Marklov of the FSB.
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I'm an agent for FSB, Russian Intelligence.
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The FSB has no interest in you, Mr. Hill.
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But leave this intelligence work to the FSB.
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The FSB is covering this up.
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Both the CIA and FSB want him dead.
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After the Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed the authenticity of border stamps in Solopov's passport, charges against him were dropped.
Blog text (5) -
His background as an outsider from St. Petersburg, plus his tough reputation as a former officer of the FSB (the successor to the KGB), led many Russians to hope that the new president would follow through on such promises.
Academic text (2002) -
The amendments to the FSB law will give special services the powers necessary for guarding the country's most valuable possession—the country's citizens!
Academic text (2011) -
The FSB is responsible for counterintelligence operations within Russia.
Synonyms
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The main agency in Russia that handles security inside the country and spying
The main Russian agency that deals with security and spying inside the country
Surface Forms
Etymology
FSB is made from the first letters of a Russian phrase that means 'federal security service', much like CIA or FBI are short names in English; it replaced the KGB after the Soviet Union ended, so FSB is the name for Russia's main internal security and intelligence agency.