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Jun 5, 2024 · Anatoly Sobchak, the former mayor of St. Petersburg, was suspected of corruption and was helped to leave Russia on a Finnish private jet by KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin, who had just...
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union 's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.
Jun 8, 2024 · In summer 2022, the FSB arrested two colleagues from the same institute as Mr Zvegintsev - its director and the former head of a laboratory for work on aerodynamics at high-speeds.
Apr 12, 2021 · In St. Petersburg, Makovoz ran a security firm that employed former special forces personnel who had been involved in a series of high-profile contract murders. ( He was later sentenced to 23 years in prison for kidnapping, exotortion, and the murder of another criminal leader.)
Jan 10, 2021 · PETERSBURG, Russia -- On December 29, the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences held its annual New Year's gathering for researchers and other employees. The institute's...
Bolshoy Dom ( Russian: Большой дом, lit. the Big House) is an office building located at 4 Liteyny Avenue in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the headquarters of the local Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast branches of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) and Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Sep 8, 2022 · In addition, Russia’s security services adopted a new tactic: approaching Russian criminal hackers and recruiting them. The FSB found itself in a good spot because the TsIB was tasked to prosecute criminal hackers. Thus, they were able to give the hackers a choice: either join the FSB or go to prison.
