GRU

GRU (plural GRUs)

1. (artificial intelligence) Initialism of gated recurrent unit.

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

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.

• FSB
• KGB
• NKVD
• SVR

• GUR, Rug, rug

GRU f

1. (Brazil) initialism of Guia de Recolhimento de Receitas da União