FSB (Russia)

The FSB (???) is a state security organisation in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB. Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (???????????? ??????? ????????????? ??????????? ??????????) which translates to Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. It is usually simply called the FSB in English-language sources.

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The FSB played a major and ineffectual role in Chechnya (in March 2005 it accidentally killed Aslan Maskhadov, having wanted to take him alive for interrogation) but it also had to fight organized crime, terrorism, drug smuggling and corruption across the whole Federation as well. The FSB has been accused of involvement in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.

Russia: The Russian Federation (, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km? (6,595,600 mi?), it is the largest coun...

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