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RUSSIAN AGENCY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An administrative agency of the Russian government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Russian agency" is a kind of...):
administrative body; administrative unit (a unit with administrative responsibilities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Russian agency"):
Committee for State Security; KGB; Soviet KGB (formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia)
Federal Security Bureau; Federal Security Service; FSB (the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin)