   the foreign intelligence service of the russian federation ( or svr rf ()) is russia's external intelligence agency, mainly for civilian affairs. the military affairs espionage counterpart is gru. the svr rf is the successor of the first chief directorate (pgu) of the kgb since december 1991.the security organs of the russian federation. a brief history 1991â2004 by jonathan littell, psan publishing house 2006. the headquarters of svr are in the yasenevo district of moscow. unlike the russian federal security service (fsb), the svr is responsible for intelligence and espionage activities outside the russian federation. it works in cooperation with the russian glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye (gru, main intelligence directorate), which reportedly deployed six times as many spies in foreign countries as the svr in 1997.the jamestown foundation the svr is also authorized to negotiate anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and provides analysis and dissemination of intelligence to the russian president. ==history==  svr rf is the official foreign-operations successor to many prior soviet-era foreign intelligence agencies, ranging from the original 'foreign department' of the cheka under vladimir lenin, to the ogpu and nkvd of the stalinist era, followed by the first chief directorate of the kgb. officially, the svr rf dates its ow
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