Unit 29155: a top-secret elite unit inside Russia’s GRU intelligence agency linked to coup plots, poison, hacking, sabotage

On March 20, 2012, a decree signed by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was published by the Russian government. The decree set out a system of payments to military servicemen “for special achievements in the service.”

Section 4 of the order, which was first highlighted by RFE/RL’s Russian Service, stated that "servicemen of military units 99450, 74455,…