Examples of “FSB” in a Sentence

name An abbreviation for the Federal Security Service (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti), the principal domestic security agency of the Russian Federation.

• Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange. — Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West? (2024)
• The FSB succeeded the KGB after the fall of the Soviet Union.
• Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office. — Luke Harding, Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics (2020)