Coat of Arms of FAPSI

FAPSI (Russian: ФАПСИ) or Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information (Russian: Федеральное Агенство Правительственной Связи и Информации) is a Russian government agency, one of the successors of KGB. It also sometimes is referred by its English acronym FAGCI. Image File history File links Gerbfapsi. ... Image File history File links Gerbfapsi. ... Cheka-KGB emblem: sword and shield Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian:   listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ...

History

FAPSI was created on the basis of 8th (Government Communications) and 16th (Electronic Intelligence) Chief Directorates of KGB. On September 25, 1991 president of Soviet Union Gorbachev disbands KGB onto a few independent departments. One of them became Committee on Government Communications under President of Soviet Union. On December 24, 1991 after disbanding of Soviet Union the organization became Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information under President of Russian Federation. On March 11, 2003 the agency is reorganized into Service of Special Communications and Information (Russian: Служба специальной связи и информации, Спецсвязь России). Cheka-KGB emblem: sword and shield Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian:   listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: ; Pronunciation: mih-kha-ILL ser-GHE-ye-vich gor-bah-CHOFF) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... Cheka-KGB emblem: sword and shield Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian:   listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Structure

According to press the structure of FAPSI copies the structure of USA National Security Agency, it includes: NSA seal The National Security Agency / Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a United States government agency responsible for both the collection and analysis of message communications, and for the security of government communications against similar agencies elsewhere. ...

• Chief R&D Directorate (Главное научно-техническое управление)
• Chief directorate of government communications
• Chief directorate of security of communications
• Chief directorate of information technology (Главное управление информационных систем)
• Special troops of FAPSI
• Academy of Cryptography
• Military School of FAPSI in Voronezh, sometimes referred as the world largest hacker's school
• Military school of communications in Orel
• Moscow Department of Penza Scientific Research Electrotechnics Institute (МО ПНИЭИ) - the major manufacture of their software and hardware

Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a large city in the south of Central Russia, not far from Ukraine. ... Orel or Oryol (Орёл) is a city in Russia, administrative center of the Oryol Oblast. ...

Chiefs

16th directorate of KGB

• Nikolai Nikolaevich Andreev (1968-1973)
• Major-General Igor Vasilievich Maslov (1973-?)
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1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Insignia of a United States Major General Major General is a military rank used in many countries. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Committee on Government Communications under President of Soviet Union

• General A.V. Starovoitov(1991)

1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information

• General A.V. Starovoitov(1991-1998)
• Vladislav Petrovich Sherstyuk (1998-1999) - former chief of Radio-electronics intelligence department of the agency
• Vladimir Georgievich Matykhin (1999-2003) - a civilian specialist on cryptography and data protection

1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cryptography has had a long and colourful history. ...

Service of Special Communications and Information

• Yu. P. Kornev (2003-2005)

2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

FAPSI and the Internet

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FAPSI was always interested in monitoring of internet activities. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

In 1994 it bought major Russian internet provider of that time RELCOM. According to their explanation they were not interested in interception of the network traffic, but in internet experience of the firm and in utilization of "FAPSI's excess computing power and network bandwidth". 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

In 1995 by decree of President Boris Yeltsin all cryptographic systems except licensed by FAPSI were forbidden in the Russian Federation. There is are widespread rumors that all systems licensed by FAPSI have backdoors allowing the agency to freely access the encrypted information. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin   listen? (Борис Николаевич Ельцин, b. ... A backdoor in a computer system (or a cryptosystem, or even in an algorithm) is a method of bypassing normal authentication or obtaining remote access to a computer, while intended to remain hidden to casual inspection. ...

Since 1998 they require that all internet providers in Russia install their hardware named SORM (Система Опреативно-Розыскных Мероприятий, literally System of Operative Retrieval Actions) that allows filtering and remote control of internet traffic from FAPSI chief quarters. To add insult to injury internet providers are to pay for the devices (around $30,000 per server) directly to FAPSI. Despite the original noisy resistance of Internet providers they complied. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Screenshot of site www.putin2000.ru. December 2004

Image File history File links Putin2000dotRu. ... Image File history File links Putin2000dotRu. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mishaps of the Agency

One of the tasks of the agency is to protect government websites from getting hacked. Often they fail to do it by a very simple scenario - the domain is not paid for in time and becomes a trophy of cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is a derogatory term used to describe the practice of registering and claiming rights over brand names which are, arguably, not for the taking. ...

In January 2004 site the election site http://www.putin2000.ru registered personally for Vladimir Putin was not for paid in time and became a pornographic site. Eventually the site was closed down. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Путин   pronunciation?; born October 7, 1952) is a Russian politician and the current President of the Russian Federation. ... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) (also informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...

The agency's site, http://www.fagci.ru/, has become a website of tourist agency.

External links

• http://www.agentura.ru/dossier/russia/fapsi/
• http://www.agentura.ru/dossier/russia/fapsi/story/
• http://www.compromat.ru/main/fsb/ushi.htm
• http://www.aladdin.ru/partners/individ/partner29.php?PHPSESSID=725e2e46771f4924703b848d16871820
• http://www.relcom.ru/Relcom/History/Full/
• http://www.compromat.ru/main/internet/putin2000.htm