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    Forces of the Russian Federation. The GRU controls the military intelligence service and maintains its own special forces units. Unlike Russia's other security...
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    Spetsnaz GRU, formally known as Special Forces of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, (Russian: Части и подразделения...
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    established Russian Federation until 7 May 1992 when it was dissolved and the Russian GRU took over its activities. The GRU's first predecessor in Russia formed...
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  • Economics GRU (Russian Federation), Russian intelligence service GRU (Soviet Union), Soviet military intelligence service Spetsnaz GRU, Russian army special...
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    clandestine missions for protecting interests of the Russian Federation. SOF are distinct from the Spetsnaz GRU that until 2010 were under the Main Intelligence...
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    intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Russian: Спецслужбы), include: Federal...
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  • Unit 29155 is a Russian military intelligence (GRU) unit associated with foreign assassinations and other activities apparently aimed at destabilizing...
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  • Directorate may refer to: GRU (Russian Federation), the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Armed Forces GRU (Soviet Union), the foreign...
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  • Alexander Mishkin (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    Yevgenyevich Mishkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Евге́ньевич Ми́шкин) is a doctor in the Russian General Staff's Main Directorate (also known as GRU), the military...
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  • Vladimir Alekseyev (general) (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) since 2011. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his involvement in the Russian military intervention...
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    that of the DIA (United States), the DI (United Kingdom) or the GRU (Russian Federation). It was formed by merging the Army Intelligence Bureau (Bureaux...
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  • Spetsnaz (Russian: Спецназ) are special forces in many post-Soviet states. Historically, this term referred to the Soviet Union's Spetsnaz GRU, special...
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  • Intelligence may refer to: Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine) GRU (Russian Federation) GRU (Soviet Union) Foreign Intelligence Service (disambiguation)...
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    into the Embassy of Russia in Ottawa and offered to sell secret information to the Russian military intelligence service; the GRU. He eventually passed...
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  • after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of citizens of the Russian Federation and of other nationalities working for Russia have been identified...
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    Igor Korobov (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    of the Russian Federation, Russia's military intelligence agency previously known as the GRU. Igor Korobov was born in Vyazma, a town in Russia's Smolensk...
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  • the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) is Russia's military intelligence. The GRU remained intact when the KGB partitioned into...
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  • Anatoly Chepiga (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    Chepiga (Russian: Анатолий Владимирович Чепига, born 5 April 1979) is a colonel in the Russian General Staff's Main Directorate (also known as GRU), the...
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    espionage activities outside the Russian Federation. It works together with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Главное разведывательное управление...
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    of the Russian Federation. An August 2014 survey by the Levada Centre reported that only 13% of those Russians polled would support the Russian government...
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    Machine, The Guardian, 23 October 1999 Russian rockets hit Grozny market, The Guardian, 22 October 1999 Russian Federation (Chechnya): For the motherland: Reported...
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  • Гру may refer to: Gru (rapper) GRU (Russian Federation) Spetsnaz GRU - Russian and Soviet special forces unit This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Igor Sergun (category People of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation)
    Sergun (Russian: И́горь Дми́триевич Сергу́н, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ sʲɪrˈɡun]; 28 March 1957 – 3 January 2016) was Director of GRU, Russia's military...
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    held under Russian occupation and, according to the Russian-installed authorities, the result was overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia. The next day...
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    The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's...
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    The Russian Federation is known to possess or have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical...
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    Igor Kostyukov (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU). Kostyukov was appointed the acting Director of GRU on 22 November 2018 following the death...
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    Federation; the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU); the GRU operative using the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0"; Aras Iskenerovich...
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  • Nikolai Kostechko (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    Kostechko (Russian: Николай Николаевич Костечко; 25 November 1946 – 3 July 2022) was an officer of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and its...
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    Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    embarrassment for Putin and for Russia's spying organisation. It was allegedly organised by the secret Unit 29155 of the Russian GRU, under the command of Major...
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