Now known as GRU Airport, the company is privately held and the airport is seeing some new investment.

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Answers.com, a service of GuruNet (Amex: GRU - news - people ), may be the answer engine leader these days.

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Most of the people coming from abroad to watch or participate in World Cup soccer will be entering the country through GRU. And for years, it has been nothing short of a nightmare.

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With respect to the latter, former GRU Col.

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The reality is that, unless the Soviet armed forces and their attendant KGB and GRU security apparatuses are entirely removed from German soil, there can be no effective integration of a united Germany into NATO.

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Fidel Castro has recently decided to exploit the high value which Russia places on maintaining this massive GRU facility on his island -- one of the few leverage points he still has over his post-Cold War benefactors in the Kremlin.

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"I defy you to go to Intel's own Web site and find all that information within five minutes, " says Robert Rosenschein , chief executive of GuruNet (amex: GRU - news - people ), the company behind Answers.com.

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As I quipped on Twitter this morning, if Ivanishvili (someone who has repeatedly and forcefully advocated on behalf of EU and NATO membership) is really the best Manchurian candidate that the Russians can dig up, then their bench is even thinner than I would have guessed and the GRU and the FSB need to urgently re-evaluate their recruiting procedures.

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