GRU
English
Etymology
From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic spelling of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.
Proper noun
GRU
- The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
- 2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, page 115:
- Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence.
- 2022 August 26, Shaun Walker, “Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators”, in The Guardian:
- A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples.
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