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lonelylonelyer · 31-35, M
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@lonelylonelyer Glavnye Upravlinye Generale Novoshtaba Varuzhona sil Rosiskoy Federadtsi.
In English, that's the General Staff of the Main Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
But everyone just calls it the GU.
In English, that's the General Staff of the Main Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
But everyone just calls it the GU.
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lonelylonelyer · 31-35, M
@BlueMetalChick are you Russian?
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@lonelylonelyer No but I've lived in Russia and I speak the language.
Faust76 · 46-50, M
Google is good anyway :p But yeah, to be exact, GRU became G.U. in 2010, but as far as I know most everybody still informally calls it GRU, at least outside of Russia G.U. just doesn't make sense.
A little bit of trivia, KGB was split up after the failed coup-attempt that led to the breaking up of Soviet Union (followed that one as it happened), and the foreign intelligence branch became known as SVR. So the technical answer as successor to KGB's international spying could be SVR, however KGB/SVR lost prominence after the failed coup attempt.
I wonder if they haven't got something new and more secret now, but GRU has been primarily blamed for foreign plots all the way to this year. (Ongoing electoral interference in US, neurotoxins in UK, contingency plans in Finland, deep hacks in Netherlands)
A little bit of trivia, KGB was split up after the failed coup-attempt that led to the breaking up of Soviet Union (followed that one as it happened), and the foreign intelligence branch became known as SVR. So the technical answer as successor to KGB's international spying could be SVR, however KGB/SVR lost prominence after the failed coup attempt.
I wonder if they haven't got something new and more secret now, but GRU has been primarily blamed for foreign plots all the way to this year. (Ongoing electoral interference in US, neurotoxins in UK, contingency plans in Finland, deep hacks in Netherlands)