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The '''Federal Security Service''' (Russian: ''Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti'')<ref name=pringle>{{cite web |last1=Pringle |first1=Robert |url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Federal-Security-Service |title=Federal Security Service (FSB) |work=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]}}</ref> formerly (1994–95) Federal Counterintelligence Service,  [[Russia]]n internal security and counterintelligence service created in 1994 as one of the successor agencies of the Soviet-era [[KGB]].

The '''Federal Security Service''' (Russian: ''Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti'')<ref name=pringle>{{cite web |last1=Pringle |first1=Robert |url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Federal-Security-Service |title=Federal Security Service (FSB) |work=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]}}</ref> formerly (1994–95) Federal Counterintelligence Service,  [[Russia]]n internal security and counterintelligence service created in 1994 as the successor of the Soviet-era [[KGB]]'s domestic criminal and ounterintelligence functions. It's sister agency, the [[SVR]], took over foreign intelligence, on the American model of dividing the [[FBI]]'s domestic functions from the [[CIA]] covert action and foreign intelligence gathering functions.

[[Vladimir Putin]] has been known to employ the FSB in many of the same ways as the old KGB.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Shaun |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/fsb-putins-modern-day-kgb |title=FSB: Vladimir Putin's immensely powerful modern-day KGB  |work=[[Guardian (UK)]] |date=October 6, 2013 }}</ref>

[[Vladimir Putin]] has been known to employ the FSB in many of the same ways as the old KGB.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Shaun |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/fsb-putins-modern-day-kgb |title=FSB: Vladimir Putin's immensely powerful modern-day KGB  |work=[[Guardian (UK)]] |date=October 6, 2013 }}</ref>