 Russia's approximate counterpart to NSA is the FSO's Special Communications Service of Russia, the successor of FAPSI.Additional capabilities are in the GRU Sixth Directorate and with cooperation with the Communications Security Headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB).There was a FSO-GRU surveillance facility at the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen’s Ras Karma military airbase, near QaDub on Socotra Island, opposite to the coast of Somalia at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean.