FSB

English Etymology 1 Noun en computing en front-side bus. Proper noun en w:Federation of Small Businesses. en Fire Support Base Etymology 2 From en ru ФСБ, initialism of ru Федеральная Служба Безопасности Federal Security Service. Proper noun en initialism Russia politics espionage police The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. en SVR GRU KGB NKVD en Luke Harding http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/alexei-navalny-russia-long-history-of-poisoned-kremlin-critics Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics 2020-08-20 w:The Guardian Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office. https://web.archive.org/web/20261011045421/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/alexei-navalny-russia-long-history-of-poisoned-kremlin-critics 11 October 2026 en Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West? w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/who-are-detainees-russia-us-prisoner-swap-intl 2024-08-01 Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange. https://web.archive.org/web/20260328082221/https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/who-are-detainees-russia-us-prisoner-swap-intl 28 March 2026 Translations Russian FSB Armenian: hy ԱԴԾ Bashkir: ba ФСБ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 俄聯邦安全局 Hebrew: he פס״ב FSB Polish: pl FSB Russian: ru ФСБ f Ukrainian: uk ФСБ f Further reading Federal Security Service Anagrams en bfs BFS BFs BSF FBS FBs SBF SFB bfs en Russian politics