The FSB will receive ports and science: a wave of repression is being prepared in Russia

The Kremlin is deepening the country’s isolation and centralizing control over strategic infrastructure. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that foreign ships will only be able to enter Russian ports with permission from the FSB, a secret service that has effectively gained a monopoly on making such decisions.

This was reported by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, citing open sources.

The decision is formally based on the provisions of the law “On Martial Law”, but in practice it indicates a new level of centralization of power in the hands of the security forces and Russia’s ever-deeper isolation from the outside world.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, transferring control of sea routes to special services creates serious economic risks and complicates access to Russian infrastructure for foreign partners. It also strengthens the signal to the world: Russia is increasingly hiding its transformation into a closed, authoritarian military system.

At the same time, the FSB’s powers in the scientific sphere are expanding in Russia – now the service can interfere in any cooperation between Russian scientists and foreign partners. The norms are written vaguely, which opens the door to a new wave of repression in the scientific community.

Moreover, intelligence officials claim that the Kremlin is already creating its own system of prisons, subordinate not to the Ministry of Justice, but directly to the FSB. These include special isolation cells, “prison cars,” and the authority to hold trials in closed rooms — all of which indicate preparations for internal purges and large-scale political repression.

“Russia is increasingly immersed in a regime of rigid manual control, which combines economic mobilization, information control, repression, and militarization of foreign trade. There is no formal martial law – but the country is already living by its logic,” the SZRU summarizes.

As a reminder,tensions are mounting in Russian power circles — one after another, high-profile arrests, mysterious deaths, and criminal proceedings are engulfing even the elite . The latest incident — the suicide of former Minister of Transport and ex-Governor of Kursk Oblast Roman Starovoit — has stunned the highest echelons of power.

As reported, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues to prepare Russians for a long-term war, not for real peace.

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