FSB

Initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.

Proper noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.
  2. Initialism of Fire Support Base

Proper noun espionage, government

  1. 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...
    • 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,...

    Coordinate Terms: SVR GRU KGB NKVD

Origin

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

Noun

  1. Initialism of front-side bus.

Forms

FSBs