According to the independent Russian portal “
Agents.media”, only in the first 3 months of 2026 the powers of the national safety Service were extended at least 5 times. As the agency Reuters writes, this is happening in parallel with the increasingly severe control of the Internet, communications and information circulation in Russia. It doesn't look like a bunch of distributed method corrections anymore. Rather, the process of systematically strengthening the FSB as an institution that is not only to respond to threats but besides to penetrate the economic, digital and social life of the states more and more clearly.