Kremlin Archives, Moscow

The Kremlin Archives, officially the Central Archives of the Government of the Russian Federation (ru: Центральный Архив Правительства Российской Федерации) is where information from many agencies and sources are gathered and handeled. Among others the FSB, the KGB, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Army, the Navy, the Financial Ministry, the Kremlin Security Forces, the Federal Space Agency and the Russian representatives to the BADGE alliance store their information here. Each agency has the right only to see and use their own information. That is with the exception of three persons who are allowed to access all information stored in the archives, these three persons are the President, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence. Other persons can apply for permission to gain access to the archives. They will first have to go through a security check that will determin their trust level.

Security levels
The highest level of classification of material on a national level. Such material would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if made publicly available. Such material would cause "grave damage" to national security if it were publicly available. Such material would cause "damage" or be "prejudicial" to national security if publicly available. Such material would cause "undesirable effects" if publicly available. Some countries do not have such a classification.
 * СОВЕРШЕННО СЕКРЕТНО - TOP SECRET
 * СЕКРЕТНО - SECRET
 * КОНФИДЕНЦИАЛьНО - CONFIDENTIAL
 * ДЛЯ СЛУЖЕБНОГО ПОЛьЗОВАНИЯ - RESTRICTED

And then there is a special level of security that is accessed only by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces ( i.e. the President)

Ultimate security, for example the missile launch codes are stored on this level.
 * ОСОБОЙ ВАЖНОСТИ - SPECIAL IMPORTANCE

Rumors
There are much rumors of a wide renge of information that is supposely stored at the archives. One popular myth is that the Kremlin has information about extra terrestials that the Soviets supposely had made contact with.

A popular joke in the government of the United Kingdom referes to the archives, a discussion may go as follows;

"Who knows Foreign Office secrets besides the Foreign Office? -Oh thats easy, only the Kremlin"

and

"It doesn't matter if you lost that Defence Ministry-paper, just call the Kremlin and ask for a copy."