MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) maintains official contacts with the security services of more than 100 countries, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said.
"Despite the fact that our international cooperation is developing fairly successfully, the Russian FSB now maintains official contacts with 205 security services and law-enforcement agencies of 104 countries, including 56 border structures of 48 states," Bortnikov said in an interview published in the Tuesday edition of Rossiiskaya Gazeta, which is available on the paper's website.
"Our partners understand very well that political frictions do not remove from the agenda such acute issues as international terrorism, transnational crime, and the criminalization of the information environment," he said.
These threats necessitate a systematic reaction from a broad range of relevant structures, he said.
"There is increasingly less 'naked rhetoric' in our joint work, and specific issues tend to be resolved more often," Bortnikov said.