Paul Goble
Staunton, June 29 – In a clear indication of his nervousness about popular attacks on himself and other senior Russian officials, Putin has just boosted the size of the central office of the Federal Protective Service which is charged with protecting him and them. As of July 1, the FSO’s central bureaucracy will grow from 785 to 812, the Vyorstka portal says.
These increases and their frequency stand in sharp contrast to the period before Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine. Then, he went for 13 years before increasing the size of this staff (t.me/svobodnieslova/9174 and nemoskva.net/2026/06/29/putin-snova-uvelichil-shtat-czentralnogo-apparata-fso-v-chetvertyj-raz-za-vremya-vojny/).
Moreover, it appears from this report that the Kremlin leader is doing so even more frequently now than he did in the first years of that war, boosting the number of staffers in the FSO central office in the middle of the year rather than at the end or beginning when it might be part of a more regular bureaucratic adjustment.
These expansions in the size of the central offices of the FSO likely mean that the total number of people working in various branches of that security organization have increased as well, although the government documents Vyorstka examined do not provide data on that point.
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