Hmmmm. Wasn’t there a fire with five casualties some Soviet, er, Russki intelligence archives a few days ago?
Just a coincidence. Nothing to see here. Move along.
It quoted an unnamed source in the Russian special services as saying that the fire-damaged section included an area where very important documents are kept. The damage was initially assessed as "very serious," the agency quoted the source as saying.
It say it was GRU, the military's foreign intelligence branch, whose facility was involved. However that information, and probably the whole story, apparently comes from RIA-Novosti agency, which might nto be the best possible source for such information. Maybe it was really a KGB facility? Although the GRU has agents and spy networks in other countries, they tend to focus on "hard" intell mostly technical stuff, not political manueverings. Think of them as more like the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) rather than like the(old) CIA.