The Foreign Intelligence Service is the civilian foreign intelligence agency of Russia. The SVR succeeded the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in December 1991. The SVR has its headquarters in the Y
Headquarters of the SVR in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Fradkov, head of the SVR RF from 2007 to 2016
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The Committee for State Security, abbreviated as KGB was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies includin
Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)
…The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is the civilian foreign intelligence agency of Russia. The SVR succeeded the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in December 1991. The SVR has its headquarters in the Yasenevo District, Moscow; its director reports directly to the president of the Russian Federation…
Cell doors at the KGB Cells Museum in Tartu, Estonia in 2007
KGB special operative Igor Morozov (left) sits on top of the BTR-60 armoured vehicle during his assignment to the Badakhshan Province, c. 1982.
Head of KGB in Lithuania Eduardas Eismuntas, January 1990
The former building of the KGB in Vilnius, Lithuania