SVR: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

SVR stands for Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, and is Russian for, "Foreign Intelligence Service". The SVR is the Russian intelligence agency, which evolved from the KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The CSR, for Centralnaya Sluzhbza Razvedkyin (Central Intelligence Service) took over the intelligence gathering and analysis duties of the KGB's First Directorate in October of 1991.

In December of that year, the former chief of the KGB First Directorate, Yevgeni Primakov, was appointed head of the organisation, which was renamed SVR.

The SVR are suspected of assassinating Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, former leader of Chechnya.