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GRU Official emblem (until 2009) with motto engraved: "Greatness of the Motherland in your glorious deeds" The first Russian body for military intelligence dates from 1810, in the context of the Napoleonic Wars raging across Europe, when War Minister Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly proposed to Emperor Alexander I of Russia the formation of the Expedition for Secret Affairs under the War ...
Showpiece of exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of Russian foreign intelligence service. The GRU's first predecessor in Russia formed on October 21, 1918 by secret order under the sponsorship of Leon Trotsky (then the civilian leader of the Red Army), signed by Jukums Vācietis, the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army (RKKA), and by Ephraim Sklyansky, deputy to Trotsky; [1] it was ...
Unit 29155 is a Russian military intelligence unit associated with foreign assassinations and other activities apparently aimed at destabilizing European countries. [1] The unit is thought to have operated in secret since at least 2008, though its existence only became publicly known in 2019. [1] [2]
From 1946 to 1947, the 1st Directorate of the MGB was conducting foreign intelligence. In 1947, the GRU (military intelligence) and MGB's 1st Directorate was moved to the recently created foreign intelligence agency called the Committee of Information (KI). In the summer of 1948, the military personnel in KI were returned to the Soviet military ...
The intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Russian: Спецслужбы), include: . Federal Security Service (FSB), an agency responsible for counter-intelligence and other aspects of state security as well as intelligence-gathering in some countries, primarily those of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS ...
Main Intelligence Directorate may refer to: GRU (Russian Federation) , the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Armed Forces GRU (Soviet Union) , the foreign military intelligence agency of the Soviet Army
Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. [3] Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include APT44, [4] Telebots, Voodoo Bear, IRIDIUM, Seashell Blizzard, [5] and Iron Viking. [6] [7] [8]
The unit originated from Soviet GLAVPUR (Glavnoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie, or the Main Political Department) and was created in early 1990s and notably employed colonel Aleksandr Viktorovich Golyev, whose memoirs were published in 2020 along with other GRU documents. In the 1990s, the unit focused on pro-Soviet disinformation in newly split ...