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FSB en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of front-side bus.
   alt of front-side bus

Forms

FSB en · PROPN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.
   alt of Federation of Small Businesses
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Fire Support Base
   alt of Fire Support Base

FSB en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Russian ФСБ (FSB), initialism of Федеральная Служба Безопасности (Federalʹnaja Služba Bezopasnosti, “Federal Security Service”).

Meanings

1. (Russia, initialism) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
   • Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office. 2020 August 20, Luke Harding, “Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics”, in The Guardian:
   • 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. 2024 August 1, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, “Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?”, in CNN:

Coordinates

SVR · GRU · NKVD · KGB

Translations (7)

cmn 俄聯邦安全局 /俄联邦安全局 (Russian FSB) · he פס״ב (Russian FSB) · ru ФСБ (Russian FSB) · ba ФСБ (Russian FSB) · hy ԱԴԾ (Russian FSB) · uk ФСБ (Russian FSB) · pl FSB (Russian FSB)