FSB
English
Noun
FSB (plural FSBs)
- (computing) Initialism of front-side bus.
Etymology 2
From Russian ФСБ (FSB), initialism of Федеральная Служба Безопасности (Federalʹnaja Služba Bezopasnosti, “Federal Security Service”).
Proper noun
FSB
- (initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, government) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (an intelligence agency of the Russian Federation and one of the main successors of the Soviet Cheka, NKVD, and KGB).
- Coordinate terms: SVR, GRU, KGB, NKVD
- 2020 August 20, Luke Harding, “Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics”, in The Guardian:
- Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office.
Translations
Russian FSB
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Proper noun
FSB
- Initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.
Further reading
FSB on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Federal Security Service on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- BFS, BFs, BSF, FBS, FBs, SBF, SFB, bfs