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Maybe not in name, but the intent is definitely alive!

FSS or FSB (translated/native modern name) had changed a little from USSR so I don't know why this thread is existing in the first place.

In 2017 KGB is literally the Russian Government.

I'd say it's one of the branches, alongside with friends and mobsters, but this classification makes the same highly connective graph.

disclaimer: russian citizen myself. Greetings from Urals!

That's a very fine bit of hairsplitting. The current intelligence organization is literally the same group that went through a reorganization in the 90's and renamed twice: first to the FSK, then a few years later to the current FSB.

So, your statement is a bit like saying "2019 Google doesn't exist" because it reorganized into Alphabet, and there's no more Google Inc, only a much more narrowly focused subsidiary named Google LLC.

FSB does not operate outside of Russia. It is the equivalent of FBI in USA. Foreign intelligence agency of the Russian Federation is the SVR and GRU