What is KGB regarding Russia?

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The KGB was the intelligence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union. KGB [Russian, from K(omitet) G(osudarstvennoĭ) B(ezopasnosti) : komitet, committee + gosudarstvennoĭ, genitive of gosudarstvennyĭ, of the state + bezopasnosti, genitive of bezopasnost', security.] And, although the KGB is no longer the security service such as the Military's GRU, the president of Russia was a former Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB -so, has it really gone away regarding Russia and Putin's actions? On December 21, 1995, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin signed the decree that disbanded the KGB, which was then substituted by the FSB, the current domestic state security agency of the Russian Federation. In Belarus, a former Soviet republic, the official Russian name of the State Security Agency remains "KGB". The term is also sometimes used metaphorically in the Western press to refer to the FSB since 1991. Main Intelligence Administration (GRU) Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU) Check this Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/putin.htm KGB And fro an abundant wealth of informatin on the subject check this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. For the intelligence services in Belarus, see State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus. For other uses, see KGB (disambiguation). The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian abbreviation for Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (help·info); Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), which was the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991. The KGB's operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the counter-intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, the Federal Protective Service, and the Secret Service in the United States, or by the twin organizations MI5 and Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom.