[dragonwriter]

> Kaspersky was trained by the FSB (former KGB).

No, he was trained by the KGB, the predecessor to the FSB, SVR RF, and , I think, a couple other organizations. (That is, he was trained while the Soviet Union and the KGB existed, and before the Russian Federation became independent and existing and new Russian institutions succeeded to the roles of the former Soviet organs.)

[mhneu]

Sorry, should have said

"Eugene Kaspersky was trained by the KGB."

[Bendingo]

More specifically, Kaspersky studied at Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, which was administered by the KGB, and "offered the best mathematics courses available in the old USSR" [0].

It is disingenuous and misleading (like so much of the anti-Russia narrative) to state that he was "trained by the KGB", as though they taught him everything they know about spy-craft and espionage.

[0] http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/meet-eugene-kasp...