FSB

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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FSB (plural FSBs)

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

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

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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 The Guardian[1]:
      Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office.
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Etymology 3

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Proper noun

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FSB

  1. Initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.

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