FSO has roughly 20,000 - 30,000 uniformed personnel plus several thousand plainclothes personnel and controls the "black box" that can be used in the event of global nuclear war[1]. It also operates the secure high-level communications system and the secure subway system used by the government Moscow metro-2. It
On May 27, 1996 the law "On State Protection" reorganized the GUO (Glavnoye Upravlenie Okhrani) into the FSO (Federal Protection Service).
The FSO is a powerful institution with a range of rights and powers, including the right to conduct searches and surveillance without warrants, make arrests, and give orders to other state agencies.
The agency is headed by General Evgeny Murov and supervised by personal Putin's bodyguard Viktor Zolotov[1]. The service is still subordinated to Vladimir Putin and allegedly used to "keep an eye" on the current Russian president Medvedev [1].
5th department (special safeguard) of Operod, SOU OGPU Jan, 1930 - Mar, 1931
5th department (special safeguard) of Operod, SOU OGPU Mar - Jun, 1931
4th department of Operod, OGPU Jun, 1931 -
Operod of OGPU
Operative division (Operod) of GUGB NKVD USSR Jul, 1934 - Nov, 1936
Division of safeguard by GUGB NKVD USSR Dec, 1936 - Jun, 1938
Department of Moscow Kremlin’s commandant, NKVD USSR
1st division of 1st Department by NKVD USSR Jun - Sep, 1938
1st division of GUGB
1st division of NKGB
Department of Moscow Kremlin’s commandant, NKGB USSR
1st division of NKVD
Department of Moscow Kremlin’s commandant, NKVD USSR
Sixth department of NKGB USSR Apr, 1943 - Mar, 1946
Department of Moscow Kremlin’s commandant, NKGB USSR
Sixth department of MGB USSR Mar, 1946 - Apr, 1946
Department of safeguard No. 1, MGB Apr, 1946 - Dec, 1946
Department of safeguard No. 2, MGB Apr, 1946 - Dec, 1946
Department of Moscow Kremlin’s commandant, MGB USSR - Dec, 1946
Headquarters of safeguard, MGB USSR Dec, 1946 - May, 1952
Department of safeguard, MGB May, 1952
Ninth department of MVD USSR Mar, 1953 - Mar, 1954
Tenth department of MVD USSR Mar, 1953- Mar, 1954
Ninth department of KGB by SM USSR Mar, 1954 -
Tenth department of KGB by SM USSR Mar, 1954 -
Fifteenth department of KGB by SM USSR
Ninth department of KGB USSR
Fifteenth department of KGB USSR
Service of safeguard, KGB USSR
Department of safeguard by USSR President
Main Administration of Protection (GUO- Glavnoye Upravlenie Okhrani) (1992-1996)
Federal Protective Service (FSO) (1996-today)
References
^ ab Pete Earley. Comrade J.: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War, Putnam Adult (January 24, 2008), ISBN 0399154396, pages 298-301.
