The Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Гла́вное разве́дывательное управле́ние, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye; IPA: [ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə]), abbreviated GRU (Russian: ГРУ; IPA: [geeˈru]) was the foreign military intelligence service of the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union (). It was founded on November 5, 1918 and took the name GRU as of 1942. It is now the foreign military intelligence main directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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