![]() ![]() The newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that this company is a successor of Internet Research Agency Ltd. In 2014, according to Russian media, Internet Research Ltd. In mid-2013 the agency won a tender for providing freight services for participants of Seliger camp. ![]() Journalists have written that Alexey Soskovets, who had participated in the Russian youth political community, was directly connected to the office in Olgino, and that his company, North-Western Service Agency, won 17 or 18 (according to different sources) contracts for organizing celebrations, forums and sport competitions for authorities of Saint Petersburg and that Soskovets' company was the only participant in half of those bids. Why are Russian trolls spreading online hoaxes in the U.S.?, PBS News Hour (PBS is funded by member station dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, corporate contributions, pledge drives, foundations and individual citizens.), 8 June 2015 Russian newspaper Vedomosti links the approved-by-Russian-authorities strategy of public consciousness manipulation through new media to Vyacheslav Volodin, first deputy of the Vladimir Putin Presidential Administration of Russia. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time." The admission came months after Prigozhin had admitted to Russian interference in U.S. In February 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private military company Wagner Group, stated that he founded the IRA: "I’ve never just been the financier of the Internet Research Agency. Information of the work being conducted at the Agency comes in part from interviews with former employees. The terms "Trolls from Olgino" and "Olgino's trolls" (Russian: "Тролли из Ольгино", "Ольгинские тролли") have become general terms denoting trolls who spread pro-Russian propaganda, not only necessarily those based at the office in Olgino. In 2013, Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that Internet Research Agency Ltd's office was in Olgino, a historic district of Saint Petersburg. elections and political processes", according to the Justice Department. ![]() On 16 February 2018, a United States grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, including the Internet Research Agency, on charges of violating criminal laws with the intent to interfere "with U.S. Subsequently, there were news reports of individuals receiving monetary compensation for performing these tasks. The Internet Research Agency gained more attention by June 2015, when one of its offices was reported as having data from fake accounts used for biased Internet trolling. The extent to which the agency has tried to influence public opinion using social media became better known after a June 2014 BuzzFeed News article greatly expanded on government documents published by hackers earlier that year. More than 1,000 employees reportedly worked in a single building of the agency in 2015. The agency has employed fake accounts registered on major social networking sites, discussion boards, online newspaper sites, and video hosting services to promote the Kremlin's interests in domestic and foreign policy including Ukraine and the Middle East as well as attempting to influence the 2016 United States presidential election. The January 2017 report issued by the United States Intelligence Community – Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections – described the agency as a troll farm: "The likely financier of the so-called Internet Research Agency of professional trolls located in Saint Petersburg is a close ally of Putin with ties to Russian intelligence," commenting that "they previously were devoted to supporting Russian actions in Ukraine- started to advocate for President-elect Trump as early as December 2015." The agency was first mentioned in 2016, when a Russian journalist Andrey Zakharov published his investigation into Prigozhin’s "troll factory". It is linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Internet Research Agency ( IRA Russian: Агентство интернет-исследований, romanized: Agentstvo internet-issledovaniy), also known as Glavset (Russian: Главсеть) and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino (Russian: ольгинские тролли), is a Russian company engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests. ![]()
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