Over Last Decade, FSB has been Building Regional Headquarters in Cities Across Russia, ‘Komi Daily’ Reports

Paul Goble

            Staunton, April 4 – Over the last decade, the FSB has built new regional headquarters in 12 cities across the Russian Federation so as to be in a better position to control the situation in the federal subjects where they are located rather than representing some kind of decentralization, Elena Solovyova of the Komi Daily says.

            What is striking is how similar the buildings all are, she says, large, with numerous floors below ground and self-contained as far as energy supplies and the activities of the officers who work there (komidaily.com/2026/04/04/raskidyvaya-shchupaltsa-kak-fsb-zakreplyaetsya-na-periferii-usilivaet-kontrol-i-zashchishchaet-giperboreu/).

            According to Solovyova who provides addresses and other details, these mini-Lubyankas have been given not only new buildings but increased responsibilities and powers because running things closer to the action is more efficient and effective than trying to run everything from Moscow as had been the case earlier.

            Such regional centers will also allow the FSB to focus on particular ethnic, religious or regional groups that might be missed by officers at the center who are forced to take a broader view and thus increase the ability of the organs to identify and then control all those who, their bosses assume, are a threat to the Putin system.