Russian Intelligence Services

Lubyanka Headquarters of the FSB

During the Soviet Union era, KGB was one of the most populist intelligence organizations in Communist world but then after the collapse of Soviet Union the KGB was disbanded. On December 21, 1995, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin signed the decree that disbanded the KGB, which was then substituted by the Federal Security Services or FSB. Russian external intelligence services known as Foreign Intelligence Service or SVR. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) (Russian: Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) is the main domestic security service of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka, NKVD, and KGB. The FSB is involved in counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance. Its headquarters are on Lubyanka Square, downtown Moscow. The service was formerly known as the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK). Foreign Intelligence Services is Russia's primary external intelligence agency for external affairs. SVR is responsible for intelligence abroad. It works in cooperation with the Russian military intelligence organization GRU that reportedly deployed six times as many spies in foreign countries as the SVR in 1997. However SVR is more influential behind the scenes than GRU of FCD, especially with regard to defining Russian foreign policy in security matters. The SVR also enters into anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies. Source said SVR have a very good cooperation with China’s Intelligence Services. The service also provides analysis and dissemination of intelligence to Russian president. It’s an open secret; SVR and GRU (Russia's political and military intelligence agencies) are operating against the U.S. in a much more active manner than they were during even the hottest days of the Cold War. Several thousand of Russian agents and intelligence officers are residing in foreign countries to collect the intelligence related data and I wont be surprised, if some one tell you hundreds of SVR residing in Malaysia and may be who knows your Russian neighbors might be a SVR agent.