“Historically,the GRU has beenRussia’s main agency for operating in uncontrolled spaces,which has meant civil wars&the like,”said Galeotti〜“In some ways,the Internet is today’s uncontrolled space.”/TheGRUunit behind the emails,known as Unit 54777, orthe 72nd Special Service Center,(
3.31 Svetlana Lokhova has claimedto have unique access to previously classifiedSoviet-era material inMoscow〜aboutSoviet military intelligence operations run by theGRU/“At least with theFSB&SVRthere are places you can apply to view the archives,but with theGRUthere’s not even a place toapply,