RUSSIAN AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Russian agency mean? 

• RUSSIAN AGENCY (noun)
  The noun RUSSIAN AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an administrative agency of the Russian government

  Familiarity information: RUSSIAN AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSSIAN AGENCY (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)