KGB: The Sword and the Shield

PBS America (Freeview)

8:15 PM to 9:20 PM

Friday 6 December

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The KGB, or FSB as it's now called, rules Russia with an iron rod directly from the Kremlin. To challenge its authority, even from apparent safety abroad, means risking life and limb. It has been argued that President Putin's Russia is not so much a state with a security service than a security service with a state