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Turkish Central Bank Gov. Murat Çetinkaya is set to co-chair the Financial Stability Board (FSB) for the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, according to a press statement released by the international body on May 15. 

An unidentified gunman opened fire in the receiving office of the local branch of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Friday, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS.

"At 17:02 local time (06:02 GMT), an unidentified man entered the FSB receiving office and opened fire before crossing the control zone," the Center said.

Eleven people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro on April 3, in what Russian authorities described as an "act of terror".
 
Authorities shut down the metro system in Russia's second city for several hours as security services said they had also defused a bomb at a second metro station.
 

Two senior FSB officers and a high-level manager of Russia’s leading cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab are facing official charges of treason in the interests of the US, a lawyer representing one of the defendants has confirmed to Interfax.

Russian authorities have introduced border checks with Belarus days after Minsk's decision to scrap short-term visas for nationals of 80 states.

The measure has been ordered by Russia's domestic security service FSB Aleksandr Bortnikov, according to Sputnik News.

Russian media do not give an explicit link between the border controls and the visa waiver.

Vladimir Putin has dismissed the dossier published last week about alleged links between Moscow and Donald Trump, describing the people who ordered it as “worse than prostitutes”.

Russia plans the creation of a Ministry of State Security (MGB) in a large-scale institutional restructuring, sources quoted by daily Kommersant have suggested.

Russia has foiled a string of plots ordered by "international terrorist organizations" active in Syria and Turkey, the Russian FSB intelligence agency said May 4, adding that several suspects had been arrested.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained seven suspected members of the Islamic State group who allegedly planned terrorist attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Urals.

The group, arrested in Yekaterinburg, comprised citizens of Russia and countries of Central Asia and was led by one of its members who had  arrived from Turkey, FSB said in a statement on Monday.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said they arrested seven Islamic State members who planned to carry out terrorist attacks.

According to RT, the leader of the group that intended to stage attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Sverdlovsk region "came from Turkey."