Those FSB guys even arranged for both Mens and Women's BB teams facing Villanova!
I don't know how loyal or disloyal Russian intel services are to their master. I think the Trump presidency is a good model for how loyalty works with a paranoid. They talk on deep background to stabilize their post-regime reputations but they never congeal around any definitive action. Those who step out get quickly isolated and crushed in a public way. In Putin's regime they often fell out of windows.
BTW, the dirty pool guys in Russian intel are the GRU who used nerve agent in the UK on the Skripals.