Foreign Intelligence Service

…are managed, respectively, by the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Security Service, agencies that emerged in the 1990s after the reorganization of the Soviet KGB (Committee for State Security) in 1991. High officials are protected by the Presidential Security Service, which was established in 1993. A Federal Border Service,…

…post-Soviet successor agencies, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, until Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin appointed him foreign minister in 1996.