Federal Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation

Organizations within the FSB

• Border Service of the FSB of Russia

• Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB of Russia
• Information Security Center (CIB) FSB

• FSB Directorate for the Kaliningrad Region
• Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region
• Office of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Khabarovsk Territory
• Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
• FSB Office for Dagestan
• FSB of Russia in the Orenburg region
• FSB of Russia in the Samara region

• ICSI (Institute of Cryptography, Communications and Informatics of the Academy of the FSB of Russia)
• National Coordination Centre for Computer Incidents (NCCCI)
• Design Institute FSUE FSB of Russia
• Orion Scientific and Technical Center (Orion Scientific and Technical Center)

• Academy of the FSB of Russia

• FSB Museum

Information systems

• State System for Detection, Prevention and Elimination of Consequences of Computer Attacks (State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks)
• SORM (System of operational-search measures) *
• Yastreb M Statistika telephone conversations)
• Disk media and media)

Launch of a service for business complaints about the pressure of security officials

In November 2019, a Russia service was launched for business complaints about pressure from law enforcement agencies. The platform "" ЗаБизнес.рф accepts the appeal to,,, and State Office of Public Prosecutor Investigative Committee. MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FSB More. here

Authority to control the work of centers for detecting computer attacks

2024: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin opened the FSB access to conscripts' data

The Federal Security Service (FSB) will be able to study the documents of conscripts applying for military service in the border troops of the department. The corresponding government decree was signed on June 25, 2024 by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

The bodies of the Federal Security Service participate in the selection of citizens subject to conscription for military service for the performance of special duties of military service in the bodies of the Federal Security Service, including by gaining access to documents for such citizens, the document says.

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On June 24, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the FSB is vested with the right to participate in the selection of conscripts. In December 2023, the head of state approved a law allowing conscripts to be sent to serve in the border troops. Previously, conscripts could get into this type of troops only after signing a contract with the FSB.

It is noted that conscripts who received secondary vocational education before the draft, as well as men who are not in reserve and have received secondary vocational education, can conclude a contract with the FSB. Such servicemen can take part in a special operation. The new rules provide the department with the opportunity to independently recruit volunteers and create formations from them following the example of the Ministry of Defense.

The right to serve on conscription in the FSB bodies is not granted to citizens recognized by foreign agents, persons who have foreign citizenship or a residence permit in another state, holders of a criminal record at present or in the past, including those removed or repaid, as well as persons who used narcotic or psychotropic substances without a doctor's prescription.^[1]

2017

National Coordination Centre for Computer Incidents (NCCCI)

In December 2017, the federal portal of draft regulations published a draft order of the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, on the creation of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NCCCI)^[2].

According to the text of the document, NCCCI is an integral part of the forces designed to detect, prevent and eliminate the consequences of computer attacks and respond to computer incidents. The main task of the center will be to ensure the coordination of the activities of the subjects of the critical information infrastructure (CII) of the Russian Federation on the response to computer incidents.

To fulfill this task, the center will send notifications and requests to KII subjects, as well as bodies and organizations, including foreign and international ones, on issues related to the detection and elimination of the consequences of cyber attacks. At the same time, the center may refuse to provide information in cases where this poses a threat to the security of the Russian Federation.

Powers for ensuring work of State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks

The Federal Security Service (FSB) will now be responsible for detecting and preventing cyber attacks on Russian networks. The corresponding decree was signed by President Vladimir Putin and posted on the website of the official publication of legal acts publication.pravo.gov.ru. Decree number 620 is called "On improving the state system for detecting, preventing and eliminating the consequences of computer attacks on information resources of the Russian Federation." The date of entry into force - January 1, 2018^[3].

This legal act assigns to the FSB the authority to ensure the operation of the state system for detecting the prevention and elimination of the consequences of computer attacks (State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks). This refers to computer attacks on information systems, information and telecommunication networks and automated control systems that are located in Russia itself, as well as in diplomatic missions and consulates.

Tasks which State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks has to carry out are listed in the decree. These include forecasting the information security situation in the country, ensuring cooperation between telecom operators and owners of information resources in the field of cybersecurity, monitoring the security of Russian information resources and establishing the causes of information security incidents.

In addition to directly ensuring and monitoring the functioning of State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks, the FSB will be engaged in the formation and implementation of the state scientific and technical policy in the field of combating cyber attacks, as well as develop methodological recommendations for their detection, prevention, identification of causes and elimination of consequences.

2013

Increased powers to monitor the work of cyber attack centers

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation will receive expanded powers to control the work of centers for detecting computer attacks. The corresponding order of the President of the Russian Federation was published^[4] on the official portal of regulatory legal acts.

The document amends the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 15, 2013 "On the creation of a state system for detecting, preventing and eliminating the consequences of computer attacks on information resources of the Russian Federation," proposing to entrust the FSB with the functions of not only creating, but also ensuring control over the state system.

According to the document, the department will organize and carry out work to create and ensure the functioning of the state system for detecting, preventing and eliminating computer attacks on information resources of the Russian Federation. Among other things, the special service will approve the requirements for information centers, carry out their accreditation for compliance with the requirements, as well as carry out measures to assess the security of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation (CII).

Bill on criminal liability for damage to the safety of critical infrastructure

The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia intends to adopt the duties of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate computer crimes (information for August 2013). FSB experts have already submitted a document securing criminal liability for illegal access to computer information protected by law, which caused damage to the security of the country's critical information infrastructure or posed a threat to its offensive. The maximum punishment is imprisonment for a period of ten years.

In addition, the department has prepared a bill providing for criminal liability for "violation of the rules for the operation of means of storing, processing or transferring protected computer information or information and telecommunication networks and final equipment, as well as rules for accessing such networks, which entailed damage to the security of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation or posed a threat of its onset." This document provides for a maximum punishment of seven years in prison.

It is planned that the draft federal laws aimed at protecting the information resources of the Russian Federation from computer attacks will enter into force on January 1, 2015.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption decided in November 2013 to recommend a government bill for adoption in the first reading, giving employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) the authority to carry out operational-search measures "to obtain information about events or actions (inaction) that pose threats to the information security of the Russian Federation." This innovation will make it possible to more effectively counteract such threats in the context of large-scale informatization of all spheres of public life, the authors of the bill believe.

According to RBC, the explanatory materials to the document indicate that there is currently an intensification of interstate information confrontation, cases of the spread of malicious software used as an information weapon are recorded. The activities of hacker groups are taking on a wide scale. The possibility of using information and telecommunication technologies for the preparation and commission of crimes, including terrorist ones, is not excluded. At the same time, the objects of illegal aspirations, as a rule, are information systems used by state authorities, credit and financial, educational and other organizations, the media, including at critical infrastructure facilities.

In December 2013, the State Duma unanimously adopted in the second and third readings a bill that would allow the FSB to engage in operational-search activities in the field of information security. At the same time, the deputies note that the security service has been engaged in this before, and the project is only intended to legalize such methods of work.

"The adoption of this federal law will create conditions for the conduct of operational-search measures, aimed at obtaining information on events, actions or inaction that pose threats to the information security of the Russian Federation, which will make it possible to more effectively counteract these threats in the context of large-scale informatization of all spheres of public life, " - noted during the report at the second reading Nikolai Kovalev, a member of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption^[5] the^[6].

History

2024

Ex-FSB officer received 9 years in prison for patronizing a hacker group

On April 15, 2024, the Perm Military Garrison Court sentenced Grigory Tsaregorodtsev, a former employee of the regional FSB department. For bribes and patronage of a hacker group, he was sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security colony. Read more here.

Arrest of employee in Merlion management extortion case

On February 28, 2024, a former FSB officer Anton Kaurov was detained in the case of extortion from the Merlion leadership. RBC writes about this with reference to people familiar with the investigation. Read more here.

2023

Arrest of an employee in the case of a bribe of 100 million rubles from hackers

In mid-September 2023, it became known that FSB Grigory Tsaregorodtsev, a former employee of the counterintelligence department of the Perm Territory department, was arrested on charges of countering MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia and receiving a bribe in the amount of 100 million. rubles This is stated in the decision of the 235th garrison military court. Moscow More. here

Detention of agents of Ukraine who were preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea

On May 3, 2023, it became known that the FSB of Russia detained agents of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine who were planning terrorist attacks in Crimea. The organizer of the group, according to the investigation, was Roman Mashovets, deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky.

The list of goals included the head of the Crimea Sergei Aksenov, the speaker of the parliament Vladimir Konstantinov, the mayor of Yalta Yanina Pavlenko and the transport infrastructure of the peninsula.

As a result of the operation, citizens of Russia and Ukraine were detained, including Viktor Podvalny, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergey Krivoshein, Konstantin Evmenenko, Igor Zorin and Sergey Voinarovsky.

During the searches, they were found to have five ready-to-use bombs, electric detonators, radio-controlled mechanisms and tracking trackers.

In addition, a channel for the smuggling of explosives from Bulgaria, organized by Ukrainian special services, was revealed: it passed through Turkey and Georgia, and the bombs were disguised as electric stoves.

Employees of the department analyzed the substance found in the slabs used to blow up the railway tracks in Crimea on February 23, 2023. According to its results, it was established that similar explosives were used in other terrorist attacks, including the murders of Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky, as well as the undermining of the Crimean bridge.

Detention of a WSJ reporter in Yekaterinburg on espionage charges

On March 30, 2023, the FSB of Russia announced that it had detained The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg on charges of espionage.

Gershkovich is "suspected of spying in the interests of the American government," the statement said. The American reporter "collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex."

2022: FSB asked the Ministry of Digital Development to create a single database of factory phone codes

In early June 2022, it became known about the recommendation of the Federal Security Service (FSB) to create a single centralized database of IMEI codes for mobile devices in Russia. The Ministry of Digital Development will deal with this project, in particular, the department will prepare regulatory legal acts that would allow the system to be introduced. Read more here.

2020: FSB central staff accused of extorting bitcoins worth 65 million rubles

At the end of October 2020, employees of the central office FSB of Sergei Belousov and Alexei Kolbov were accused of extortion bitcoins for 65 million. rubles More. here

2019: Arrest of FSB officers for robbing a bank client for 136 million rubles

The owner of the money stolen by FSB officers under the guise of operational measures in the building of Metallurg Bank on Ivan Babushkin Street was recognized as a 33-year-old unemployed resident of Moscow. He explained to the investigation that he took 136.5 million rubles. "in debt from friends."

According to the man recognized as the victim, in May 2019 he began to look for where you can exchange a large sum in rubles for dollars. One of the acquaintances said that a certain Boris Karamatov, allegedly associated with the leadership of the small Moscow bank Metallurg, can help with the exchange at a favorable rate (according to RBC, controlled by Yuri Karasev, a native of the GRU). During the month, with the help of Boris and their common friend, the victim several times came to the bank on Ivan Babushkin Street, where he changed rubles for dollars "through the bank's cash desk," the alleged owner of the money assured the investigators.

In June 2019, the man decided to change 136.5 million rubles according to the proven scheme. The intermediary suggested that he do this at the rate of 65 rubles. 5 kopecks. per dollar. To perform operations, it was necessary to bring the entire amount on June 10 at 15:00 Moscow time to Metallurg Bank. Then the victim turned for help to another friend of his, the owner of an armored car and took three strong immigrants from Georgia with weapons to help. The money had to be taken in an office on the territory of the Moskva shopping and entertainment complex in Lyublino, where they were in storage. In the afternoon of June 10, the victim in a car with two bags of money (52 million rubles each) went to the bank's office. The intermediary invited customers to drive up to the rear entrance of the building.

A car carrying money with passengers drove under the barrier to the fenced area around the bank. Acting on the instructions of intermediaries, the men brought bags of cash into the indicated door without a sign. Almost immediately after that, about ten people appeared, some in overalls without identification marks. Demonstrating the FSB decree on the conduct of operational-search measures, they took the cash and fled in a taxi.

The victim suspected that what happened was not quite similar to the real operation of the FSB, and turned to the police. Into place operatives of criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs in the South-Western Administrative District left. The next day, June 11, according to the results of the audit, the investigator of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the South-Western Administrative District opened a criminal case under Art. 162 h. 4 p. "b" (robbery on an especially large scale).

Police officers in the South-Western Administrative District studied CCTV cameras, installed a Mercedes minibus, where the attacking FSB officers moved. Later, information about the case was brought to the head of the FSB Bortnikov and he gave permission to arrest the employees.

1991

USSR President Gorbachev abolishes the KGB

3.12.1991 USSR President M.S. Gorbachev signed the Law "On the Reorganization of State Security Bodies," which finally abolished the KGB.

Dismantling of the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka

Dismantling of the Dzerzhinsky monument on Lubyanka, Moscow, August 23, 1991.

1982: Example of combating sabotage

Orientation to the KGB departments and special departments, USSR, 1982

1979

Fighters of group "A" of the 7th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR before flying to the capital of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. USSR, December 1979.

1974: Creation of the Alpha Group to combat terrorism

On July 29 , 1974 , by order of the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, the Alpha group was created to combat terrorism.

1963: Only oral communications to relatives about the shootings of their loved ones without a court ruling

In 1963, it was decided to shoot citizens out of court to inform close relatives only orally. Those whose deaths were previously reported as those who died in custody, decided not to report the real causes of death (shooting).

1939

NKVD building in Furkasovsky Lane. Year: 1934-1945

1938: Elimination of OUN leader Yevgeny Konovalets with a box of sweets

In 1938, an explosion rang out in Rotterdam (Netherlands). The box of sweets carried by the man suddenly exploded. The murdered man was identified as the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Yevgeny Konovalets.

Konovalets was not only the leader of Ukrainian nationalists, but was also firmly connected with German intelligence - Abver. At this time, the Ukrainian terrorist Stepan Bandera was imprisoned for life in a Polish prison, so Konovalets had no competitors.

Stalin personally gave the order to liquidate the enemy. For this, a young NKVD agent Pavel Sudoplatov was introduced into the structure of the OUN abroad. They decided to eliminate the Ukrainian Nazi with the help of a box of sweets. Sudoplatov studied Konovalets' tastes and habits well - chocolate was his weakness.

The Soviet intelligence officer agreed to meet with the Ukrainian nationalist in one of the Rotterdam cafes. They talked for a few minutes, after which Sudoplatov left him a "gift" - a box of sweets. A few minutes later, Konovalets went out into the street, where the explosion occurred. Except for the Ukrainian nationalist, no one died.

Sudoplatov acquired a new suit and was extremely effectively able to get away from the pursuit. Through Brussels and Paris, the Soviet intelligence officer was able to reach Spain, where at that time there was a civil war. After the death of Konovalets in the OUN, there was a split that cost the lives of many Ukrainian militants.

1937: People's Commissar Yezhov awarded the Order of Lenin

On July 17, 1937, Yezhov was awarded the Order of Lenin "for outstanding success in leading the NKVD bodies to fulfill government tasks."

Comrade Kalinin presents the People's Commissar Yezhov with the Order of Lenin, 1937.

1936: Nikolai Yezhov appointed head of the NKVD instead of Heinrich Yagoda

September 26, 1936 Nikolai Yezhov was appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, replacing Heinrich Yagoda in this post. On October 1, 1936, Yezhov signed the first order on the NKVD on his entry into office as People's Commissar.

Like his predecessor Heinrich Yagoda, Yezhov was subordinate to the state security bodies (GUGB NKVD of the USSR), and the police, and auxiliary services such as highway and fire departments.

At the new post, Yezhov was engaged in coordinating and carrying out repressions against persons suspected of anti-Soviet activities, espionage (Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), "purges" in the party, mass arrests and expulsions on social, organizational, and then ethnic grounds.

It was under Yezhov that the so-called orders appeared to the local NKVD bodies indicating the number of people to be arrested, expelled, shot or imprisoned in camps or prisons.

All-Union chemical competitions in the kitchen of the NKVD sanatorium, Yevpatoria, 1930s.

1930

NKVD Department. Qasl. Ural. USSR. 1930

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