The FSB director summed up the results of the large-scale purge of foreign agents from Russia
Over the past five years, the work of 120 foreign and international non-governmental organizations, “which are instruments of the foreign intelligence community,” has been terminated in Russia.
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This was stated by the director of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to the agency’s website.
Also, according to him, 137 career employees and agents of foreign intelligence services were convicted.
“Foreign intelligence services continue to strive to penetrate all areas of our state’s activities. Naturally, this meets with decisive resistance from counterintelligence officers. Thus, from 2012 to the present, 137 career employees of foreign intelligence services and their agents have been convicted,” Bortnikov said.
As a result of measures to protect information constituting state secrets, 140 people were convicted, Bortnikov emphasized.
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