| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States (Sodruzhestvo nezavisimykh gosudarstv) |
| FSB | Federal Security Service (Federal’naia sluzhba bezopasnosti) |
| FSO | Federal Guard Service (Federal’naia sluzhba okhrany) |
| GKU | Main Control Directorate (Glavnoe kontrol’noe upravlenie) |
| GRU | Main Intelligence Directorate (Glavnoe razvedyvatel’noe upravlenie) |
| MVD | Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del) |
| NTV | Russian Nationwide Television Channel |
| ORT | Public Russian Television (Obshchestvennoe rossiiskoe televidenie) |
| PA | Presidential Administration |
| SBP | Presidential Security Service (Sluzhba bezopasnosti prezidenta) |
| SPS | Union of Right Forces party (Soiuz pravykh sil) |
| URPO | Organized Crime Directorate of the FSB (Upravlenie po razrabotke prestupnykh organizatsii) |