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Federal Security Service
The
Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
(
FSB
; ) is the principal
security
agency of
Russia
and the main successor agency to the
USSR
's
Committee of State Security
(KGB). Its main responsibilities are within the country and include
counter-intelligence
,
internal
and
border security
,
counter-terrorism
, and
surveillance
as well as investigating some other types of grave crimes and federal law violations. It is headquartered in
Lubyanka Square
,
Moscow
's centre, in the main building of the former KGB. The Director of the FSB since 2008 is
army general
Aleksandr Bortnikov
.
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