FSB

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Etymology 1

Noun

FSB (plural FSBs)

  1. (computing) Initialism of front-side bus.

Proper noun

FSB

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

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

FSB

  1. (initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, law enforcement) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
    Coordinate terms: SVR, GRU, KGB, NKVD
    • 2020 August 20, Luke Harding, “Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2026:
      Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office.
    • 2024 August 1, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, “Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?”, in CNN‎[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 28 March 2026:
      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.
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