GRU

See also: gru and Gru

English

Etymology

From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic spelling of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.

Proper noun

GRU

1. 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^[1]:

     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.

Translations

Soviet and Russian GRU

• Polish: GRU (pl) n
• Russian: ГРУ (ru) n (GRU)

See also

• FSB
• KGB
• NKVD
• SVR

Anagrams

• GUR, Rug, rug