Russia’s powerful Federal Security Service (FSB) has been transformed into a semicriminal structure that is functioning essentially as a “second government,” according to a new report by the Dossier (Dosye) Center, which is funded by a former oligarch and staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
RFE/RL: Opposition report labels Russia’s FSB a ‘second government’
A view of the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, in downtown Moscow on Nov. 16, 2018.
