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> FSB is an intelligence agency

It is a security agency, a.k.a. the “secret police.” (It does, of course, spy on the populace.)

Basically the Stasi of Russia, no?

They are, in fact, what the Stasi were modeled after.

FSB is former KGB, so indeed it is Stasi, but KGB may be even more familiar name from those times.