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GRU
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gru Gru
English
Etymology 1
Noun
en AI en gated recurrent unit.
Etymology 2
From en ru ГРУ, through phonetic transliteration of ru Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние and acronymizing.
Proper noun
The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
en 2020 w:Ben Aaronovitch False Value Gollancz 115 Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence.
en https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/socialite-who-charmed-nato-staff-in-naples-was-russian-spy-say-investigators Shaun Walker Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators 2022-08-26 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.
Translations
Soviet and Russian GRU
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 格魯烏
Polish: pl GRU n
Russian: ru ГРУ n
Ukrainian: uk ГРУ n
See also
en FSB
en KGB
en NKVD
en SVR
Anagrams
en gru GUR Rug rug
Portuguese
Proper noun
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