SVR 
Foreign Intelligence Service

Adress: 101000, Moscow

SVR director - Lebedev Sergey Nikolayevich

Press-secretary of SVR director - Samolis Tatyana Viktorovna

SVR Press-bureau chief - Labusov Boris Viktorovich

Under the law "On external intelligence" SVR is a forces composition of RF securityprovision and it’s assigned to protect the personality, society and state security from the external danger with use of methods and means specified by present federal law.

Intelligence activity is carried out by means of:

information collecting and processingabout real and potential possibilities, actions, plans and intentions of foreign states, organizations and persons affecting the vital interests of Russian Federation (hereinafter - intelligence information);

assistance provision in realization of measures fulfilled by the state in behalf of Russian Federation security provision.

A necessity of intelligence activity carrying out is determined within the framework of their full powers by both the President of Russian Federation and the Federal Meetingon the strength of impossibility or inexpediency of Russian Federation security provision by other means.

SVR status is determined by RF Law on external intelligence, dated July 08, 1992 and by the Condition on SVR approved by the President. SVR predecessor was the First Headquarters (PGU) of KGB, USSR.