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The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Russian: Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации, romanized: Sluzhba Vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [ˈsluʐbə ˈvnʲɛʂnʲɪj rɐˈzvʲɛtkʲɪ] is the civilian foreign intelligence agency of Russia.
The intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Russian: Спецслужбы), include: . Federal Security Service (FSB), an agency responsible for counter-intelligence and other aspects of state security as well as intelligence-gathering in some countries, primarily those of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS ...
The Academy of Foreign Intelligence (alternatively known as the SVR Academy, [1] previously known as the Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute and the Red Banner Institute) [2] is one of the primary espionage academies of Russia, and previously the Soviet Union, serving the KGB and its successor organization, the Foreign Intelligence Service.
Foreign Intelligence Service may refer to: Foreign Intelligence Service (Armenia) Foreign Intelligence Service (Azerbaijan) Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service; Mossad Foreign Intelligence, Israel; Foreign Intelligence Service (Kazakhstan) Foreign Intelligence Service (Romania) Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia) Foreign Intelligence ...
It has a legal basis in Article 9 of Federal law 40-FZ of 1995, which was signed by President Yeltsin, and which defines the role of counterintelligence services in Russia. [ 4 ] However, the FSB's counterintelligence predecessor, the Federal Counterintelligence Service , was a successor to the KGB ; [ 5 ] the KGB's Second Main Directorate had ...
Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin (Russian: Серге́й Евге́ньевич Нары́шкин, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej jɪˈvɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈrɨʂkʲɪn]; born 27 October 1954) is a Russian politician who has served as the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service since 2016.
Fitin became deputy chief of the NKVD's foreign intelligence in 1938, then a year later at the age of thirty-one became chief, with the rank of Lieutenant General. [3] The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service credits Fitin with rebuilding the depleted foreign intelligence department after Stalin's Great Purge.
In April 2017, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said WikiLeaks was a hostile intelligence agency aided by foreign states including Russia, and that the U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that Russia's "propaganda outlet", RT, had conspired with WikiLeaks. [127]