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{{Short description|Russian security organization}}
{{Infobox government agency
| agency_name       = Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation
| native_name       = Федеральная служба контрразведки Российской Федерации
| agency_type       = Independent
| motto             =
| seal              = Emblem of the Department of Counterintelligence Operations.svg
| seal_width        = 150
| seal_caption      = Emblem of the Military Counterintelligence Department 
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| chief1_name       = [[Sergei Stepashin]]
| chief1_position   = Director
| formed            = 21 December 1993
| dissolved         = June 23, 1995
| superseding       = [[Federal Security Service]]
| preceding1        = [[Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation]]
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| jurisdiction      = [[Russia]]
| headquarters      = 24 [[Kuznetsky Most]], [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]
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The '''Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation''' ('''FSK RF'''; {{lang-rus|Федеральная служба контрразведки Российской Федерации|p=fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnəjə ˈsluʐbə kəntrɐzˈvʲetkʲɪ rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨɪ}}) was the main security agency of [[Russia]]. It superseded the [[Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation]], and was an overall successor agency to the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[KGB]], which had dissolved two years prior to the FSK’s creation. It existed from 1993 to 1995, when it was reorganized into the [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB).

==Origin==
On November 26, 1991, the President of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|RSFSR]] [[Boris Yeltsin]] issued a decree on the transformation of the republican State Security Committee (KGB) into the [[Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR]] (AFB).<ref>[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/468 Указ Президента РСФСР от 26 ноября 1991 г. № 233 «О преобразовании Комитета государственной безопасности РСФСР в Агентство федеральной безопасности РСФСР»]</ref> On January 24, 1992, by decree of the President of Russia, the [[Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation]] was created on the basis of the abolished Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR and the Inter-Republican Security Service of the USSR(short-lived successor to KGB).<ref>[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/791 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 24 января 1992 г. № 42 «Об образовании Министерства безопасности Российской Федерации»]</ref>

On December 21, 1993, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Security was abolished and the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation (FSK) was created in its place.<ref>[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/5109/ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 декабря 1993 г. № 2233 «Об упразднении Министерства безопасности Российской Федерации и создании Федеральной службы контрразведки Российской Федерации»]</ref>

==Directors of the AFB / Ministers of security / Directors of the FSK==
* [[Viktor Ivanenko (security officer)|Viktor Ivanenko]] (November 1991 – January 1992)
* [[Viktor Barannikov]] (January 1992 – July 1993)
* [[Nikolai Golushko]] (July 1993 – February 1994)<ref name="969SecSevUkrb">{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28969341.html Ukrainian intelligence services. Victory and defeat of the last century], [[Radio Svoboda]] (14 January 2018)</ref>
* [[Sergei Stepashin]] (February 1994 – April 1995)

==Restructuring into FSB==
The FSK was renamed the [[FSB (Russia)|FSB]] (Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) by the Federal Law of April 3, 1995, "On the Organs of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation" and the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 23, 1995,<ref>[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/7993 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23 июня 1995 г. № 633 "О первоочередных мерах по реализации Федерального закона «Об органах федеральной службы безопасности в Российской Федерации»"]</ref> making the new FSB a more powerful organization.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.photius.com/countries/russia/government/russia_government_federal_counterintel~10863.html Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK)]
* [http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/history.htm Historical background on the FSB website]

[[Category:1993 establishments in Russia]]
[[Category:Defunct law enforcement agencies of Russia]]
[[Category:Government of Russia]]
[[Category:Russian intelligence agencies]]