Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Main Intelligence Directorate
Aliases
Glavnoe Razvedyvatel'noe Upravlenie; GRU; Main Intelligence Department
Address
Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Frunzenskaya nab., 22/2, 119160, RU
Linked to
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/lists-of-parties-of-concern/entity-list
Official reason
Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and a Moscow-based affiliate organization of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and its director pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13848, the U.S. election interf...
Other Information
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766
Date of listing
2017-01-04
Program information
Authority
US
Program
Entity List (EL) - Bureau of Industry and Security
Regime
BIS Export Control
Target State
Non-Proliferation
Measures
Other export restrictions
Official Information
The BIS Entity List has evolved into a formidable administrative enforcement tool that imposes a license requirement for exports, reexports, or transfers of some or all items subject to the EAR to listed foreign entities. Those on the BIS Entity List were placed there because there is reasonable cause to believe they have been involved, are involve...
Program URL
• BIS, "Don’t Let This Happen to You!", a compendium of case examples highlighting BIS criminal and administrative enforcement efforts: link