Small black tags, above more than a dozen keys, are marked "ZONA FSB" — the FSB zone.
Like all major opposition figures, Nemtsov was under surveillance by the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB.
Some have suggested it is likely that Snowden is being held under guard of the FSB, Russia's security service, but the Russians have insisted that they have neither received, nor attempted to extract, any of Snowden's secrets.
Under the new provisions, the FSB will be able to echo Soviet practices.
Indeed, having a member as part of the insurgency often means putting his entire family under imminent threats from the FSB and local police.
To assess the accuracy of hospital reports of mortality (for fresh stillbirths (FSB), neonatal deaths, under 1-year-old deaths (infant deaths)), and live births sent through the DHIS2 database; these were compared with the survey-derived estimates (deemed to be the gold standard) for the same period (Appendix 1).
Owen concluded that two Russian killers – Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi – had carried out the murder "under the direction" of Russia's FSB spy agency.
The assassination of Litvinenko has now been officially established as "a state-sponsored act", with a "strong probability" that the killers acted "under the direct order" of the Russian FSB secret service, in an operation "probably approved" by the Russian president.
Today's dissidents tend simply to be beaten up, shot, poisoned or blown up.Evgenia Albats, a journalist and author of a book on the KGB, says the atmosphere of intimidation is typical of the FSB, which has gained huge power under Vladimir Putin.
