GRU

American  

Or G.R.U.

1. (in the Soviet Union) the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet General Staff, a military intelligence organization founded in 1920 and functioning as a complement to the KGB.

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GRU British  

abbreviation

1. (formerly) the Soviet military intelligence service; the military counterpart of the KGB

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Etymology

Origin of GRU

< Russian, for Glávnoe razvédyvatel'noe upravlénie

Example Sentences

Then there’s the upstart GRU Space, created just last year with the goal of building hotels on the moon.

From MarketWatch

That August, Suranovas was arrested and charged with carrying out an act of terrorism on behalf of Russian military intelligence, the GRU.

From BBC

"I wasn't part of this, I don't work for the GRU," he shot back.

From BBC

The delegation was led by the deputy head of Russia's GRU military intelligence, Andrei Averyanov, the National Assembly president told AFP.

From Barron's

Alexeyev's boss, GRU head Adm Igor Kostyukov, has been leading the Russian delegation at recent trilateral talks with Ukraine and the US in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE.

From BBC