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image by Željko Heimer, Jozef Obskura and
António Martins, 24 May 1999
The green flag with white saltire is the Customs Flag. It was adopted 3
december 1994 by presidential decree No 2152. This flag was
Customs Flag of imperial Russia since 1827.
Victor Lomantsov, 11 March 2000
Any construction details for russian saltires? These images
have them thinner than what I
have seen. I wander also about the shade of green (normal
or KGB’s very dark green?) and about the similarities between
this flag and the Border Guard ensign
(blue saltire with white fimbriation on green), considering
shades and dimensions..
António Martins, 24 May 1999
image by William
Garrison, 1 June 2023
based on photo
Flag (c. Feb. 2023) of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation or
FSB (FSB; Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации, IPA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian; ФСБ России), the principal
Security agency of
Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate
predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was
reorganized into the FSB in 1995. The three major structural successor
components of the former KGB that remain administratively independent of the FSB
are the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Protective Service
(FSO), and the Maini Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the
Russian Federation (GUSP).
William
Garrison, 1 June 2023
Detail of badge
.gif)
image by William
Garrison, 1 June 2023
image by António Martins, Željko Heimer
and Jozef Obskura, 24 May 1999
As they say, the K.G.B. is now K.G.-used-to-B. But a new
organization was created (or better, a new name was attibuted…), the
F.S.B. — Federal Security Service. It uses a golden saltire on dark
green. Their coat of arms is two swords or per saltire on vert.
António Martins, 04 April 1999
