Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:01:45 1 History
00:04:39 2 Legal authority
00:06:35 3 Command structure
00:09:46 4 Involvement in Russian foreign policy
00:11:31 5 Operations
00:11:40 5.1 Espionage
00:12:57 5.2 Cooperation with foreign intelligence services
00:13:48 5.3 Assassinations abroad
00:15:04 5.4 Internet disinformation
00:15:55 6 Recruitment
00:17:39 7 Notable Russian intelligence agents
00:21:14 8 See also
00:22:03 9 Notes
00:22:12 10 External links



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The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (Russian: Слу́жба вне́шней разве́дки, tr. Sluzhba vneshney razvedki, IPA: [ˈsluʐbə ˈvnʲɛʂnʲɪj rɐˈzvʲɛtkʲɪ]) or SVR RF (Russian: СВР РФ) is Russia's external intelligence agency, mainly for civilian affairs. The SVR RF succeeded the First Chief Directorate (PGU) of the KGB in December 1991.  The headquarters of SVR are in the Yasenevo District of Moscow.
Unlike the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the SVR is tasked with intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation.  It works together with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Гла́вное разве́дывательное управле́ние, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, IPA: [ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə], GRU), its military affairs espionage counterpart that reportedly deployed six times as many spies in foreign countries as the SVR in 1997. The SVR is also authorized to negotiate anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and provides analysis and dissemination of intelligence to the Russian president. Any information pertaining to specific identities of staff employees (officers) of the SVR is legally classified as state secret and from September 2018, same applies to non-staff personnel, i.e. informers and recruited agents.