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The Federal Protective Service (FSO) of the Russian Federation is a federal government agency mandated by the relevant laws with the tasks related to the protection of many high-ranking state officials including the President of Russia, as well as certain federal properties such as the Kremlin.
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Service of Special Communications and Information (Spetsviaz)
On March 11, 2003 Russian president Vladimir Putin reorganized the Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information FAPSI from an independent service into the Service of Special Communications and Information (Spetsviaz) of the FSB. On August 7, 2004, Spetsviaz was incorporated as a structural sub unit of the Federal Protective Service (FSO).
Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information (FAPSI) 1991-2003
First created by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 from the fragmentation of KGB sub-departments following the collapse of the Soviet Union and then officially declared an independent service in 1993, the Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information, known as FAPSI, had its own awards subordinate to state awards. These awards are listed below with their establishment orders. These awards, although now redesigned to be in line with the awards of the FSO and FSB since FAPSI's 2004 merger with the protective service, remain listed in the order of precedence of the FSO and worn on the uniform of pre merger recipients.