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Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the Federal Security Service (FSB) - the state security organization in Russia, charged with intelligence, counterintelligence, and combating crime domesticaly. The head of the FSB is appointed by the President.
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Alexander Bortnikov
Head of the Federal Security Service (FSB)
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Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - An off shoot of the old KGB which took over the responsibilities of running foreign agents and obtaining intelligence from abroad. The President selects the Head of the SVR a position held by Sergie Lebedev since may 2000.
In 1991, the SVR was the first section of the KGB to break away. Firstly in the form of the Centralnaya Sluzhbza Razvedkyin Central Intelligence Service (CSR) which incorporated most of the activities previously carried out by the KGB’s First Chief Directorate. In December of 1991 after Gorbachev finally stepped aside for Boris Yeltsin the CSR became the SVR. Yevgeni Primakov a former deputy head of the KGB, and future prime minister, was elected as the newly formed organization’s head by the new Russian President. After Yeltsin’s disastrous defeat in the 1996 Duma elections Primakov was moved to the foreign ministry to be succeeded by Colonel General Vyacheslav Trubnikov, his deputy since 1992. Trubnikov was a life long KGB veteran who had spent 15 years in South Asia. He was replaced in May 2000 by another carrier member of the intelligence community Sergie Lebedev. In September 2007, former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov was appointed by President Putin to head the SVR and Sergei Lebedev as an Executive Secretary of the CIS.
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Mikhail Fradkov
Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
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