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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime
Synonyms:
Foreign Intelligence Service; Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki; SVR
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Foreign Intelligence Service" is a kind of...):
international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)
Domain region:
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
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