GRU

GRU or Glavnoe Razvedyvatel'noe Upravlenie (romanized from ГРУ and Главное Разведывательное Управление) is the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian armed forces (formerly of the Red Army).

SPECNAZ
Due to the organization of the Russian armed forces, special forces units are under shared command from GRU and their respective branch. At the time of this writing (June 2009) this is due to change and the Director of GRU has been forced to retire due to his resistance to these changes. Rumors say that the idea is to re-organize all special forces units under a new branch independent organization similar to USSOCOM.

Links

 * GRU @ Wikipedia