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Since 1990, the FSB's people have been placed into every position (more opening up all the time) that permits appointment in the Russian government. Putin himself stated that the FSB is now "back in control of Russia, forever." The government IS the FSB. And the FSB is the direct successor, manned with the same people, who were in the KGB, housed in the same building that the KGB, NKVD, VsKGB, has always ruled from: the Lubyanka, where people are still taken, tortured, and murdered.
This is essentially the same thing as the Gestapo suddenly operating all of Germany post-war, except that the KGB/FSB/NKVD/etc., are responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
So total is the FSB's control over Russia that even the Russian Orthodox Church is operated by an FSB agent, Archbishop Kirill, who has a KGB codename and who was tasked with spreading Marxist Liberation Theology through the world council of churches as late as 2009 just prior to his promotion to run all or orthodoxy.
Not that that's a big deal since only 7% of Russians even go to church once a month! Religion in Russia is as fake as its priests.