The Russian secret services

Coordination and oversight:

• Security Council
• Department of Legal Questions of Security of the State and Law Directorate at the President's Administration
• Administrative Department at the Russian Governement
• Security Committee at the State Duma 
• Defense and Security Committee at the Federation Council
• Military-Industrial Commission under the Russian Government
• National Antiterrorist Committee, the NAK

Agencies:

• Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR
• Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the GRU
• Military Topographical Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
• Federal Security Service, the FSB
• Federal Technical and Export Control Service (formerly the State Technical Commission)
• Federal Protective Service, the FSO
• President’s Main Directorate of Special Programs, the GUSP
• Federal Service to Control Drug Trafficking, the FSKN
• CIS Antiterrorist Center, the ATC

Backgrounds:

• Committee of state security (KGB) of the USSR

Legal frameworks

The legislative basis for the activity of the Russian secret services is the February 2006 law “On counteraction of terrorism”, “On the operational-search activity” (accepted by 05.07.1995) and law “On the security” (05.03.1995) applying to all special services. But also there are laws for each of the special services: “About the federal security service” (03.05.1995), “About the external intelligence” (08.12.1995) etc.

Furthermore, the activity of the Russian secret services is regulated by a countless number of President's Decrees. For example, one of the most secretive Russian special services is the Main Directorate of the Special Programs of the President (Glavnoye upravlenie specialnih program: GUSP), a former KGB 15th Directorate, responsible for the underground strategic assets of Moscow: bunkers and tunnels. Its activity is regulated not by the law, but by the Presidential edict “Questions of the Main administration of the specific objects of the Russian President” (07.09.2004).