True KGB informers are not in every apartment complex or workplace, but dissent is not tolerated.
Little wonder Mr. Putin personally welcomed them home singing the unofficial anthem of the KGB.
They are like the KGB because they have secret services, and the act like that.
Consequently, in 1960 the KGB decided to wage a campaign to destroy its moral authority.
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Putin also set about appointing former KGB colleagues to high posts in government and business.
And Vladimir Putin, as we all know, was part of the KGB during that time period.
An Italian academic and a specialist on the KGB is now being held by British police.
Putin transferred what was left of their assets to his KGB friends, associates, and favored oligarchs.
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After taking power, Putin and his KGB colleagues wasted little time bringing such oligarchs to heel.
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"Bond was never considered to be a serious film in the KGB, " says Mr Lyubimov, curtly.
One of Mr Putin's former KGB colleagues Nikolai Patrushev is now head of the FSB.
Nicolai B. was, for thirty years, a senior operative of the KGB, stationed in Riga, Latvia.
The KGB concentrated on the development of highly effective means to penetrate locks and safes.
If the intercepted KGB cables are to be believed, her guilt was never in question.
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His KGB past makes the sense of betrayal sharper for those in the security services.
KGB, and lived in conditions only slightly better than those of the zeki themselves.
Her definition includes not only the KGB, but also the military and other security forces.
One of those who makes no secret of his KGB past is Sergei Ivanov.
He actually suggested that the budget of the KGB should be increased over pre-coup levels.
KGB's old headquarters, which is mainly filled with tatty stalls selling products aimed at grown-ups.
KGB, which Mr Aliev headed before he became Azerbaijan's boss under Leonid Brezhnev three decades ago.
The prime suspect for Mr Litvinenko's death is ex-KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi who was represented in court.
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Born in St Petersburg in 1952, Vladimir Putin began his career in the KGB, the secret police.
Another topic of discussion was the ability of the KGB to derive the combination for a safe.
Mr Yevloyev was a thorn in the side of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov, a former KGB general.
Gorbachev's decree authorizing KGB search and seizure on the premises of Soviet joint ventures involving Western companies.
His father, Aliaksandr, says he was twice summoned by the Belarusian state security service, still called the KGB.
In a book of interviews, he expressed admiration for his KGB colleagues who persecuted dissidents in the 1970s.
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An ex-KGB officer himself, he headed the FSB until appointed Acting Prime Minister by Boris Yeltsin in 1999.
Mr Aliyev, a former KGB officer, has faced strong opposition in Azerbaijan for his authoritarian style of leadership.
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