Security Officer's Day is an annual holiday celebrated on the 20th of December. On this day, it is customary to congratulate all those who daily decide the most difficult tasks to ensure the state and national security, protects the peace of civilians. Contrary to popular belief, this is not only the FSB. An important role in maintaining state security is played by such bodies as the FSO, SVR, GUSP and others. This day is also celebrated by students of specialized universities, who will soon begin to serve for the benefit of our country.
history of the holiday
December 20 was chosen as the official date for objective reasons. It was then that back in 1917, on the initiative of Vladimir Lenin, the Council of People's Commissars issued a decree on the establishment of a special body. It was called the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. Five years later, this body was disbanded, and its powers were transferred to the State Political Administration under the NKVD of the RSFSR.
The history of this body, first in the RSFSR, then in the USSR and, finally, in the Russian Federation is complex. Its structure, leaders and names changed. But its goal remained unchanged - the protection of the country and its population. In its current form, the FSB dates back to 1995. In April of this year, Boris Yeltsin signed the Federal Law "On the Bodies of the FSB." The document dealt with the powers, legal framework, principles and activities of the security body.
Despite the almost century-old history of the structure, for a long time the security forces did not have the opportunity to celebrate their holiday at the official level, receive congratulations and well-deserved awards. True, this mistake was corrected quickly - in the same 1995, when the head of state issued decree No. 1280 on the establishment of the Day of State Security Organs.
No it won't be the end of the world
There is one sign for that.
After all, today, for the day exactly
Let's all celebrate
Holiday of the FSB of Russia
And congratulations in euphoria
All the protection of the state
Russian of the whole space.
We congratulate them from the bottom of our hearts
And, of course, we wish
Good health, happiness,
So that even on a day of bad weather
Protected us from harm
And they defended their homeland!
We are not afraid of cataclysm
And global terrorism.
Even from a meteorite
Russia's retinue will save us.
To a similar asteroid
We have our own hyperboloid.
There is a holiday in the Russian calendar,
When is the day of the FSB employees celebrated.
Congratulations as an employee
Send on a business trip.
You have more strength, calmly serve,
Lay all criminals face down.
You are there, you are here, you are everywhere.
You protect everyone, good health to you.
On behalf of everyone, I congratulate you on FSB Day!
The security of all Russia -
Your main task.
With my congratulations
We wish you good luck.
And health for a hundred years,
After all, there is nothing more important.
May wishes come true
All bad things are forgotten.
Let the money be double
And the health of the whole family.
Another day, tension in the veins
Everything is under control, the spy will not leave.
Every night on transcendental forces,
And constant tight binding.
Work counterintelligence for a peaceful sky,
For the sleep of honest citizens and the joy of children.
Forward FSB, but don't blindly follow
Orders that kill people.
FSB officers, relatives,
You save, help:
Bad days have come
Take me as your wife.
I will cook dinner
And give birth, and spend money.
I will stop swearing
If I have the patience.
I congratulate you, relatives!
Choose quickly
Who will be paired with me
Don't let me pass!
On this frosty winter day
Please accept our congratulations.
After all, your life is like under fire,
There is no place for fun.
Serious and dangerous work
Fighter for our safety.
Not everyone is taken to you by the FSB,
And do not give the work publicity.
Today is your day. From the heart
Thank you guys for everything.
Serve valiantly, for honor,
Your salary is not important!
Back on the wall calendar
red number:
"Happy FSB Day, people," -
The neighbor screams out the window.
And we wish you well
Health, happiness and good luck
Thank you for everything, friends,
For completing the task!
After all, if you boldly set a goal
And go to her like you
By your work in all ages
Reach the height.
If in life suddenly happened,
That a thief-villain ran over,
There is no need to panic
Contact the FSB quickly!
FSB you will celebrate a holiday today,
Imagine for a second that everything is fine!
Your service is on, and work is in full swing again,
So that bad things don't happen!
Let them tremble now, who conceived evil,
Your ears hear everything and vigilant eyes,
You know how to calculate and work out,
Where many people can't understand anything.
Technology to help you the most excellent,
So that your brain sometimes rests!
Of course, we wish you promotions,
And that everyone wishes for himself.
Today is the FSB holiday,
The whole country will mark without "b".
Congratulations together
Let's read the congratulations
And give with gifts
Round bag!
Thank you for safety
The whole country will say with a smile,
Serve diligently
We can't do without you!
Today, December 20, when Russia celebrates the Day of the State Security Bodies Worker (“Chekist Day”), it is appropriate to recall the history of the origin of domestic special services, their role and contribution to the difficult and dramatic history of our country.
Like most modern "departmental" holidays, the Day of the State Security Organs has its history since Soviet times - known in the USSR as Chekist Day, it was timed to December 7/20, 1917, when the Cheka was formed - the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, which later repeatedly changed its name - GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB. And since 1995, this day has become an official holiday for all those who serve in the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSO) and the Main Directorate special programs President of Russia.
On December 7/20, 1917, in accordance with the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (VChK) was formed, headed by F.E. Dzerzhinsky. Officially, the Cheka was the body of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" for the protection of the state security of the RSFSR, "the leading body in the fight against counter-revolution throughout the country." The initiator of the emergence of the Cheka was personally Lenin, who pointed out that the corresponding structure should be "a striking weapon against countless conspiracies, countless attempts on Soviet power" and emphasizing that without her "The power of the working people cannot exist as long as there are exploiters in the world".
Initially, the punitive measures of the Cheka were rather “soft”: since the death penalty was initially abolished in the RSFSR, the Chekists did not apply it, punishing counter-revolutionaries (real and imaginary) by publishing lists of “enemies of the people”, deprivation of food cards, confiscation of “counter-revolutionary property”. But with the outbreak of the Civil War, everything changed radically: having received emergency powers, the Chekists began to use the toughest methods of fighting "counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs", as well as speculators and bandits. Since February 21, 1918, according to the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR "The Socialist Fatherland is in danger!", Chekists were ordered to shoot "enemy agents, speculators, thugs, hooligans, counter-revolutionary agitators, German spies" at the crime scene. And from September 5, 1918, when the Bolsheviks officially proclaimed the policy of red terror, the Chekists received an almost unlimited right to reprisal anyone who would be regarded by them as an enemy of the Soviet regime.
As a result, in addition to fighting real pests and doing a lot to combat homelessness, the Chekists "distinguished themselves" by unprecedented terror unleashed against the Russian people, accompanied by torture and sophisticated executions. Things got to the point that even in the Central Committee of the RCP (b) already in 1918 a number of representatives of the party condemned "the absolute power of an organization that places itself not only above the Soviets, but also above the party itself", a number of party workers demanded the elimination of the activities of the Cheka "arbitrariness of an organization stuffed with criminals, sadists and decayed elements of the lumpen proletariat", and Kamenev, as Chairman of the Commission of Political Control, proposed in connection with the facts voiced and completely abolish the Cheka as a structure. However, this position did not receive party support, because. Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and Sverdlov criticized the opponents of large-scale terror. According to Lenin, the Cheka was subjected to "unfair accusations" by "limited intelligentsia ... unable to look at the issue of terror in a broader perspective". After that, a decision was made prohibiting any criticism of the activities of the Cheka.
As you know, the traditions of the Cheka, including the repressive one, were then continued by its successors - the GPU, the OGPU and the NKVD. And since the strengthening of Stalin's position, these repressions have already fallen on the heads of employees of the repressive bodies and as a result of large-scale "purges" most of Dzerzhinsky's associates who held leadership positions in the Cheka (A.Kh. Artuzov, G.I. Bokiy, M.Ya. Latsis, Ya.Kh. Peters, M.A. Trilisser and others) lost not only their posts, but also their lives.
But it would be unfair to attribute only bloody terror and repression against the people to the Soviet state security agencies. In addition to these well-known facts, there were others. The border troops, which were a division of the NKVD, heroically proved themselves in the fight against the Basmachi, in protecting the state border, and were the first to courageously take the blow of the Nazi troops in June 1941. A lot was done by the state security agencies during the Great Patriotic War in the fight against enemy spies, agents and saboteurs. Suffice it to recall the legendary "SMERSH", which came out of the special departments of the NKVD and represented a whole structure of counterintelligence organizations that successfully fought enemy agents. Employees of the Soviet special services also showed themselves heroically during the liquidation of Bandera gangs in Ukraine.
The current activities of the state security agencies involved in the neutralization of foreign spies and agents, enemy agents, terrorist gangs and the prevention of terrorist attacks continue to really best traditions Soviet special services. However, linking the modern holiday of state security workers to the day of the establishment of the Cheka, which shed rivers of blood of innocent people and left a bad memory among the people, today seems to be a clear relic of the communist past. After all, the Russian special services undoubtedly have a more ancient and glorious history, and by no means did 1917 become the year of their birth - the special services in Russia have existed since time immemorial. The chronicles of the times of the Sovereigns Ivan the Terrible and Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov testify to the appearance of a special personal guard of the Kings, and in 1649 the first legislative foundations of the special services were officially recorded in the Cathedral Code of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Then other departments known from history were in charge of ensuring the security of the Russian State, for example, the Preobrazhensky Prikaz and the Secret Chancellery of Emperor Peter the Great, the Secret Expedition under the Senate, as well as the legendary Third Department of the Chancellery of Emperors Nicholas I and Alexander II.
Doesn’t the situation seem strange when, on the one hand, the authorities take certain steps to revive the imperial traditions of historical Russia, and on the other hand, continue to tie the Day of the State Security Officer to the day of the establishment of the Cheka, which physically destroyed the best people of the Russian Empire, often guilty only of the fact that they did not accept Bolshevik power and were true defenders of traditional, Orthodox and state values? After all, back in 2000, V. Putin, recognizing that the history of domestic security agencies is "ambiguous", emphasized that today's agencies are "fundamentally different domestic special services." And if so, then maybe the time has come to postpone the celebration of this day to July 3 (15), when in 1826 Emperor Nicholas I created the Third Department, which became a highly professional state security body, and which is much more in line with the direction of modern Russian special services? Isn't it more worthy than the bloodthirsty recommendations of Lenin, the words that, according to legend, were said by Emperor Nicholas I, handing a white handkerchief to his chief at the establishment of the Third Department: “Here are all your instructions. The more tears you wipe off with this handkerchief, the more faithfully you will serve my purposes!”
On December 20, Russia celebrates the Day of the security worker Russian Federation. This is a professional holiday for employees of the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, as well as other special services of our country. The holiday itself was established on December 20, 1995 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin, but long before this decision, the intelligence officers and counterintelligence officers of our country celebrated it unofficially - as "the day of the Chekist." By the way, on this day in 1958, exactly 60 years ago, the famous monument to the founder of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, was unveiled in Moscow. This monument became a symbol of the Soviet special services for many years, and now the country is seriously talking about the need to restore it.
Why was December 20 chosen as the date of the holiday? The answer to this question is simple and unambiguous. It was on December 20, 1917 that the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR was issued on the formation of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK) for the fight against counter-revolution and sabotage under the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin personally initiated the creation of the Cheka of the RSFSR, who perfectly understood the need for a special structure that would be responsible for ensuring the security of the young Soviet state, for the fight against counter-revolution and enemy agents.
The Soviet state had to create a new special service “from scratch” - all pre-revolutionary security agencies were disbanded, and their employees either emigrated or went to the “whites”, or were arrested or lived quietly, trying to attract attention to themselves to a minimum. Nevertheless, the Soviet party leaders took up the matter with enthusiasm.
The first head of the Cheka of the RSFSR was Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, one of the most influential Bolsheviks at that time, who was considered, among other things, a man who was crystal-clearly devoted to the revolution. No matter how critics of the Bolshevik government treat Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka must be given his due - he coped with the creation of an effective special service, laying the foundation for its organization and further development.
Already in the very first months after the October Revolution, the Chekists had to face numerous enemies of the Soviet government - from enemy agents and saboteurs to ordinary bandits. Civil War became the first baptism of fire of the Soviet security agencies, and the post-war period - a stage in improving the foundations of activity. In the 1920s - 1930s, the foundation was laid for the very structure of the security agencies, in which more and more new units were created, responsible for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence, government communications and protection of the country's top leadership, radio interception and decryption, the fight against sabotage and terror and political security. So, on December 20, 1920, three years after the creation of the Cheka, the Foreign Department (INO) of the Cheka under the NKVD of the RSFSR was organized, which was responsible for conducting foreign intelligence and intelligence operations outside the Soviet state.
On February 6, 1922, the Cheka was transformed into the Main Political Directorate (then, after the formation of the USSR, the United Main Political Directorate) under the NKVD. For a certain period, the leadership and state security agencies, and law enforcement(police) turned out to be within the same structure. In operational terms, the police also found themselves subordinate to the state security agencies, which turned into a key instrument of political governance of the state, the main "" of the party.
In 1934, the OGPU was transformed into the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) as part of the NKVD of the USSR. The thirties became a difficult period for domestic security agencies. On the one hand, the time remained very dangerous for the young Soviet state - they had to solve problems in the fight against enemy spies, saboteurs, real political opponents country. But there was also back side activities of bodies related to collectivization, party "purges". By the way, the latter did not bypass the entire leadership apparatus of the state security agencies. People's Commissars of Internal Affairs Grigory Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov were both arrested and shot. Do not count the high-ranking and not very Chekists, who disappeared in the camps in the late 1930s without a trace. The system was cleansed of harmful elements, but often innocent people became its victims.
Nevertheless, the formation of renewed state security agencies was also associated with the party "purges". In March 1941, the NKVD was divided into the NKVD itself and the People's Commissariat for State Security, which was to be responsible for the competence of the former GUGB, but already in July of that year, after the start of the war, they were merged. However, already in 1943, the structure was divided again into the NKVD and the NKGB of the USSR. In 1946, the NKGB of the USSR was transformed into the Ministry of State Security of the Soviet Union.
It was the period of the 1940s - early 1950s. was accompanied by numerous organizational changes in the system of state security agencies. For example, in 1947, foreign intelligence was transferred to a specially created Information Committee under the USSR Council of Ministers, which in 1949 became part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but already in 1952, intelligence was again returned to the Ministry of State Security.
The death of Joseph Stalin also had a major impact on the fate of the security forces. Firstly, almost a day later, on March 7, 1953, the state security agencies were included in the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Secondly, when Lavrenty Beria was removed from his post and arrested, the organs were “cleansed” from the “Beria” team. A number of close associates of Lavrenty Beria were shot, others were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment or dismissed from the authorities. But fundamental changes were associated with the creation in 1954 of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. For a long 36 years, this structure became the only Soviet special service responsible for the widest range of areas in the field of state security.
The KGB was in charge of foreign intelligence, general, military and economic counterintelligence, political security, radio interception, encryption and decryption, protection of senior officials of the Soviet state, protection of the state border of the Soviet Union. The activity of the KGB of the USSR was set at the highest level.
The Soviet intelligence service was highly rated at the world level, quietly competing with the intelligence services of the United States and Great Britain, not to mention the intelligence services of other states. This level was also facilitated by a system of careful selection of personnel, vocational training intelligence officers and counterintelligence officers. But there were, of course, problems. So, in the 1960s - 1980s. a not so small number of employees of the KGB of the USSR fled abroad and began to work against their native state.
On the other hand, the state security agencies were forced to carry out the functions of political investigation, the fight against dissent, often dealing with issues that in fact had nothing to do with the true protection of the country's interests. And, nevertheless, for the presence of certain problems, nevertheless, most of the servicemen of the KGB of the USSR honestly and selflessly served their homeland.
The exploits of the Soviet Chekists were rarely covered in the press due to the specifics of their activities. The exception was the border guards, but this is a separate issue. In the post-war period, they preferred either to keep silent about the exploits of intelligence officers and counterintelligence officers, or to submit information in an extremely compressed and modified form.
The State Security Committee of the USSR ended almost simultaneously with the history of the Soviet Union itself. Since the KGB of the USSR was considered the most odious Soviet structure, there was nothing surprising in the fact that they decided to simply disband it. The new democratic authorities were also actively pushing for this decision by the Western "partners" who suddenly signed up as "friends" of Russia.
Formally, the “August coup” of 1991 put an end to the history of the KGB. One of the active participants in the GKChP was the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, General of the Army Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov - on the night of August 21-22, 1991, he was arrested. The first deputy chairmen of the KGB G.E. became the defendants in the criminal cases. Ageev and V.F. Grushko, Deputy Chairman of the KGB V.A. Ponomarev, head of the 9th Main Directorate of the KGB Yu.S. Plekhanov, his deputy V.V. Generalov, Head of the KGB Department for Moscow and the Moscow Region V.M. Prilukov. A peculiar symbol of the end of the KGB was the dismantling of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky by the rebel Muscovites on August 22, 1991.
On August 29, 1991, Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin, who previously held the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, was appointed to the post of chairman of the KGB of the USSR. Under his leadership, the KGB of the USSR ceased to exist on December 3, 1991. The main departments were separated from the KGB and transformed into several new special services. A new, post-Soviet era began in the life of the country's state security system. She was associated with no less dramatic events and upheavals.
Since the 1990s Russian security agencies had to deal with a number of phenomena practically unknown in Soviet times - drug trafficking and drug mafia, massive corruption in government, organized crime, terrorism, political extremism.
Accordingly, the role of anti-terrorist units of state security agencies, as well as structures responsible for protecting constitutional order. On the other hand, the fight against economic crime and corruption, including in the state apparatus, law enforcement system, and the armed forces, has become a very important area of activity in a market economy.
Now in the Russian Federation, three main special services are responsible for the security of our country. All of them are the successors of the KGB of the USSR and the organizations that existed after its collapse. Firstly, it is the Federal Security Service (FSB) - the most powerful and extensive structure in charge of counterintelligence and military counterintelligence, economic security and the fight against corruption, anti-terror and protection of the constitutional order, protection of the state borders of Russia (after being included in the FSB FPS - Federal Border Service), the fight against especially dangerous forms of crime, information security. A variety of people serve in the FSB - from anti-terror special forces to programmers the highest class, from investigators and counterintelligence operatives to Coast Guard troops.
The second special service - the Foreign Intelligence Service - is responsible for foreign intelligence, for the security of Russia's interests abroad. This is the heir to the glorious traditions of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. For obvious reasons, we hear much less about the activities of the SVR than about the activities of the FSB, but this does not mean that the results of this activity are not visible, especially now that the West has unleashed a new phase of the Cold War against Russia.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation solves very specific tasks. Its competence includes not only the protection of the head of state, the head of government, other important officials and government facilities, but also government communications, information protection, maintenance and operation of presidential and government infrastructure facilities. In addition, the FSO, within the framework of its powers, is engaged in anti-terrorist activities and operational work. Since the FSO included most of the abolished Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI), the number of the FSO has grown markedly compared to the Yeltsin period. But, we must pay tribute, this structure copes with its duties perfectly.
Thus, for more than a century of their existence, the security agencies of the USSR and Russia have gone through a difficult path, accompanied by numerous organizational transformations, human losses, and blows to reputation. But they performed and continue to perform their very difficult and dangerous tasks to protect the security of the Russian state. Their service is not always known to us, there are half-true and frankly false myths and legends about it, but it remains extremely significant for the country. After all, no significant state can exist without security agencies, especially such as Russia, and even in the current world political situation.
"Military Review" congratulates all current and former (although "there are no former Chekists") employees of the security agencies of Russia and the Soviet Union on their professional holiday. Honor and praise to those who serve to protect state interests, eternal memory to those who gave their lives for Russia.
On February 6, 1922, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) adopted a resolution on the abolition of the Cheka and the formation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the RSFSR. On November 2, 1923, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR created the United State Political Administration (OGPU) under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. On July 10, 1934, the state security agencies entered the NKVD of the USSR.
In February 1941, the NKVD of the USSR was divided into two independent bodies: the NKVD of the USSR and the People's Commissariat of State Security (NKGB) of the USSR. In July 1941, the NKGB and the NKVD of the USSR were again merged into a single people's commissariat - the NKVD of the USSR. In April 1943, the People's Commissariat for State Security of the USSR was re-established. On March 15, 1946, the NKGB was transformed into the Ministry of State Security.
In March 1953, a decision was made to merge the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security into a single Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. On March 13, 1954, the State Security Committee (KGB) was established under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
On December 3, 1991, the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev signed the law "On the reorganization of state security bodies", on the basis of which the KGB of the USSR was abolished, and for the transitional period, the Inter-Republican Security Service and the Central Intelligence Service of the USSR (Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation) were created on its basis.
In January 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on the formation of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation on the basis of the abolished Inter-Republican Security Service and the Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR, which was transformed in November 1991 from the State Security Committee of the RSFSR, created in May of the same year.
Then other departments known from history were also in charge of ensuring the security of the Russian state, for example, the Preobrazhensky Prikaz and the Secret Office of Peter I, the Secret Expedition under the Senate, the Third Branch of the Own Office of Nicholas I and Alexander II.
After the terrorist attack on March 13 (March 1, old style) 1881, when Emperor Alexander II died, the state security system in Russia was radically reformed. As a result of the transformations, in September 1881, for the first time in the history of Russia, a special department was created to protect the first persons of the state. Over the next decades, the security service improved.
After the October Revolution of 1917, in November 1920, a Special Department was created, which was tasked with organizing and implementing the protection of state leaders and ongoing events with their participation. Subsequently, it became part of the OGPU, and went through all the structural transformations with it. From 1954 to 1990, the 9th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR performed the functions of state protection.
In 1990-1991, after the election of the President of the USSR, the Security Service of the President of the USSR was created, which became the successor of the 9th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR.
In 1991, the state security agencies were merged into the Main Security Directorate of the Russian Federation. Since 1993, as an independent federal agency in the field of state protection, there was the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation (SBP of Russia).
On May 27, 1996, the Law of the Russian Federation "On State Protection" was adopted, in accordance with which the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation was created, which was merged with the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation in the same year.
The historical roots of the Russian special services are reflected in the heraldic symbols of modern Russian authorities security: in the emblems of the FSB of the Russian Federation and the FSO of the Russian Federation, the two-headed eagle of tsarist Russia and the traditional symbol of the special services of the Soviet era - "shield and sword" are combined into a single whole.
From the very beginning of their formation, the security agencies have stood guard over the Motherland, guarding the national interests of Russia. So it was in the years of the Great Patriotic War, and in the post-war period, and now, when they have to fight terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and protect the country's borders.
In 2015, thanks to the efforts of the FSB, it was possible to prevent over-terrorist activities. In 2016, 42 terrorist crimes were prevented, 129 militants were neutralized, including 22 leaders of the gang underground. Detained.
Traditionally, the most important area of the FSB's work is counterintelligence activities. In 2015, the activities of more than 400 staff members and agents of foreign intelligence services were suppressed. Of these, 23 were prosecuted.
As part of the fight against organized crime, the activities of 98 groups were suppressed. According to the materials of the security agencies, 2.2 thousand people were prosecuted and convicted for committing crimes of an economic nature.
Issues related to ensuring information security are also in the sphere of constant attention of the security authorities. In 2015 alone, it was recorded on the official websites and information systems of the Russian authorities. The work of more than 1.6 thousand Internet resources, including those of a terrorist and extremist orientation, was stopped.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
