The station, on both the busy Sokolnicheskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines, lies beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

BBC: Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings

It is not Vladimir Putin, nor the Media Minister, Mikhail Lesin, nor the head of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, nor the prosecutor-general Vladimir Ustinov.

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The Federal Security Service spokesman on Saturday immediately pointed out that one of the alleged bombers was a U.S. citizen.

WSJ: Russia Distances Itself From Chechen Brothers

Indeed, anyone who has flown safely, enjoyed our national parks, received a Pell grant to go to college, or relied on a Social Security check to retire in dignity has benefited from the service of federal workers.

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So transparent has this campaign become that Azerbaijan's Minister of National Security was obliged in a recent meeting with Russia's Federal Security Service (read KGB), to make a formal demarche.

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All the more interesting therefore that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has recently been co-operating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in arresting the alleged perpetrators of the December 2008 RBS WorldPay data breach.

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