For instance, the building is covered in windows, but each one is blocked by heavy drapes. Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads "Business centre". Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night. [67], Between July 2014 and September 2017, the IRA used bots and trolls on Twitter to sow discord about the safety of vaccines. 1-, , d. 4 korp. , . 9-N, ofis 238, ul. 130 reviews #1,028 of 7,000 Restaurants in St. Petersburg $$ - $$$ Italian Seafood European Savushkina St., 128/1, St. Petersburg 197374 Russia +7 812 374-72-24 Website Menu Open now : 11:00 AM - 01:00 AM ". [41][42][43], According to the testimonies of the investigative journalists and former employees of the offices, the main topics for posts included:[9][12][19][30], The IRA has also leveraged trolls to erode trust in American political and media institutions and showcase certain politicians as incompetent. The "Trolls of Olgino" are considered to be his project. [11][8] In 2017 another whistleblower said that with bonuses and long working hours the salary can reach 80,000 rubles. IRA's "Blacktivist" Facebook account actively promoted the event and reached out directly to local activists on Facebook Messenger asking them to circulate petitions and print. Azimut carries out development, batch production and delivery of radio-communication, navigation, landing, surveillance and air traffic control automation systems on a turnkey basis to civil aviation enterprises as well as develops and carries out integrated airports and air traffic control centers equipment and re-equipment projects. Thousands of people participate in the "Protest Trump and ideology of hate at Trump Tower!" A "Blue Lives Matter" counter protest was held across the street. [9], More than 1,000 paid bloggers and commenters reportedly worked only in a single building at Savushkina Street in 2015. [65], Leonid Volkov, a politician working for Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, suggests that the point of sponsoring paid Internet trolling is to make the Internet so distasteful that ordinary people are not willing to participate. Your first feeling, when you ended up there, was that you were in some kind of factory that turned lying, telling untruths, into an industrial assembly line. At least 57 people attended the event organized by the IRA's "United Muslims of America" Facebook group. Just blame it on Russian hackers.[77], On 16 February 2018, the Internet Research Agency, along with 13 Russian individuals and two other Russian organizations, was indicted following an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller with charges stemming from "impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of government. Error: too short?! One is on Putin offering his condolences to President Franois Hollande after the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris. [87], "LGBT United" organized a candlelight vigil on 25 June 2016, for the Pulse nightclub shooting victims in Orlando, Florida. under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA. "They said that I am a secret agent, a CIA operative, and that I am a pervert," she says. It was obvious that the decisions were coming from somewhere, said Marat. It was situated in a white cottage,[10] 15 minutes by an underground railway from Staraya Derevnia station, opposite Olgino railway station. First thing in the morning, wed come in, turn on a proxy server to hide our real location, and then read the technical tasks we had been sent, he said. . A Russian Troll Sent It", "How Russia's Troll Farm Is Changing Tactics Before the Fall Election", "Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017", "Russia Steps up Propaganda Push with Online 'Kremlin Trolls', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_Research_Agency&oldid=1140344111, The IRA uses Twitter to spread a hoax about an. The other rally, "Save Islamic Knowledge", was organized by another Facebook group called "United Muslims of America" for the same time and location. : 202-622-2420; Assistant Director for Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation, tel. [9], The terms "Trolls from Olgino" and "Olgino's trolls" (Russian: " ", " ") have become general terms denoting trolls who spread pro-Russian propaganda, not only necessarily those based at the office in Olgino. hide caption. [66], Three months later, the same accounts posted false messages on Twitter about an Ebola outbreak in Atlanta under the keyword #EbolaInAtlanta, quickly relayed and picked up by users living in the city. 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Full address 55 Savushkina Street, St. Petersburg, Russia Identication documents (1) Type Secondary sanctions risk:: Ukraine-/Russia-Related Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR 589.201 Historical data The ad was for the IRA's Back the Badge Facebook group and showed a badge with the words "Back the Badge" in front of police lights under the caption "Community of people who support our brave Police Officers. Small rallies were held in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and other cities. Scrolling through one of the LiveJournal accounts she ran, the pattern is clear. Excellent service around the world. The troll factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, employed hundreds of young, educated people 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to Savchuk. The trolls worked in teams of three. She told me that I had to write posts that were natural like, for example, 'I am cooking or I am walking down the street and I had this thought about how bad the [pro-Western] Ukrainian president is.' %%EOF The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russias troll army, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west. Barack Obama eating a banana or depicted as a monkey, or the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, in drag, declaring: We are preparing for European integration. The trolls have to post the photographs together with information they can pull from a website marketed as a patriotic Russian Wikipedia, featuring ideologically acceptable versions of world events. [13], In February 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private military company Wagner Group, stated that he founded the IRA: "Ive never just been the financier of the Internet Research Agency. MediaSintez LLC, GlavSet LLC, MixInfo LLC, Azimut LLC, and NovInfo LLC. [20], Despite links to Alexei Soskovets, Nadejda Orlova, deputy head of the Committee for Youth Policy in Saint Petersburg, disputed a connection between her institution and the trolling offices. Savchuk, who considers herself a freelance investigative journalist and activist for free and fair elections, spent most of her time at the troll farm writing as an imaginary Russian woman on the LiveJournal blogging platform, widely used in Russia today. Thanks to the presidents initiatives, the number of terrorist acts inside Russia has decreased dramatically.. The building at 55 Savushkina St. on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, is unremarkable. Sanctions imposed by Japan under its Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law. Date 17 April 2018 Source Voice of America https://www.voanews.com/a/inside-the-internet-research-agency-a-mole-among-trolls/4352107.html Author Other employees have to manage 10 accounts on Twitter, publishing 50 tweets every day. By early 2018, Facebook suspended 70 accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency: Last edited on 19 February 2023, at 17:41, Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections, attempting to influence the 2016 United States presidential election. Like the 4 April rally, the event was heavily promoted by IRA's "Blacktivist" Facebook account, including attempted outreach to local activists. Internet activist Lyudmila Savchuk spent two months working undercover at the troll factory in 2015, creating fake social media accounts and writing blog posts meant to sow divisions in the U.S. and turn Russians against Americans. [19], Russian media point out that according to documents, published by hackers from Anonymous International, Concord Management is directly involved with trolling administration through the agency. [14], 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. [95], The "SecuredBorders" Facebook group organized the "Citizens before refugees" protest rally on 27 August 2016, at the City Council Chambers in Twin Falls, Idaho. Subsequently, there were news reports of individuals receiving monetary compensation for performing these tasks. "[14] The admission came months after Prigozhin had admitted to Russian interference in U.S. : 202-622-2420; Assistant Director for Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation, tel. "[9], As reported by media and former employees, the office in Olgino, Primorskiy district, St.Peterburg had existed and had been functioning since September 2013. Vitaly Bespalov, a 27-year-old freelance journalist with long blond hair and a tattoo of Russian opposition politician Ksenia Sobchak on one arm, came to St.Petersburg in 2014 to try to find work. The official is emailed by the agency. [79], On 16 April 2016, a rally protesting the death of Freddie Gray attracted large crowds in Baltimore. Vladimir Putin contacted the French leader immediately, despite the bad relations between Russia and the west, reads the section explaining the conclusion the troll posts should reach. While the right-wing pages promoted Mr. Trumps candidacy, the left-wing pages scorned Mrs. Clinton while promoting Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. Reports via screenshots. [101][102][103], A Trump protest called "Trump is NOT my President" attracted 5,000 to 10,000 in Manhattan on 12 November 2016. This part of the Neva Bay coast was owned in the mid-19th century by Count Stenbock-Fermor, of Swedish provenance, who bestowed upon it the name of his wife Olga. The scariest thing is when you talk to your friends and they are repeating the same things you saw in the technical tasks, and you realise that all this is having an effect, the former worker said. On 15 March, President Trump imposed financial sanctions under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act on the 13 Russian and organizations indicted by Mueller,[116] preventing them from entering the United States to answer the charges should they wish to. I think that every single propagandist, even the little troll on Facebook, has to be punished, has to be named and exposed.". Only a small number of people showed up for the three-hour event, most likely because it was Saturday and the Chambers were closed. [8][12], In MayJune 2014, Internet trolls invaded news media sites and massively posted pro-Russian comments in broken English. See traveller reviews, 5 candid photos, and great deals for Savushkina 143 at Tripadvisor. [70], In September 2017 Facebook said that ads had been "geographically targeted". list, issued by the National Security Council. About a dozen counter showed up. [49], In March 2014, the Polish edition of Newsweek expressed suspicion that Russia was employing people to "bombard" its website with pro-Russian comments on Ukraine-related articles. [75] According to reporting by Vanity Fair, up until that point, most known efforts had been aimed at "weaponizing the far-right". The LiveJournal blogger, who spent two months working at the centre until mid-March, said she was paid 45,000 roubles (520, $790) a month, to run a number of accounts on the site. [85][86], On 25 May 2016, the Westboro Baptist Church held its annual protest of Lawrence High School graduation ceremonies in Lawrence, Kansas. But unofficially, and more commonly, it was known as the "troll factory.". Last year, the Guardians readers editor said he believed there was an orchestrated pro-Kremlin campaign on the newspapers comment boards. We had to write ordinary posts, about making cakes or music tracks we liked, but then every now and then throw in a political post about how the Kiev government is fascist, or that sort of thing, she said. Technical points used by trolls were taken mainly from content disseminated by RT (formerly [95], The IRA ran its most popular ad on Facebook on 19 October 2016. Malaya Balkanskaya St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 192289 Russian Federation Phone: Website: azimut-ferrit.ru Employees (this site): Estimated Revenue: Actual Fiscal Year End: Year Started: Incorporated: ESG ranking: ESG industry average: What is D&B's ESG Ranking? Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg Address: 43/1, Lermontovsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg, 190103, Russia Nearest metro: Tekhnologichesky Institut, Baltiyskaya BOOK NOW The Hotel Sovietskaya was well known to travelers to the USSR as the main Intourist hotel in St. Petersburg. - , . [88][89], IRA's "Don't Shoot" Facebook group and affiliated "Don't Shoot Us" website tried to organize a protest outside St. Paul, Minnesota police headquarters on 10 July 2016, in response to the 6 July fatal police shooting of Philando Castile. [2] It is linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. A friend who worked at the troll factory tipped her off to what the ads were for. Business Process Outsourcing BPO; Business Solutions [19][30], Employees at the Olgino office earned 25,000 Russian rubles per month; those at the Savushkina Street office earned approximately 40,000 Russian rubles. Vladimir Putin, as he appears on a page from the patriotic Russian Wikipedia., Thirteen Russians charged with interfering in US election, Kremlin youth groups were funding online troll activities. Freelance journalist Anna Shpakova contributed to this story. The first one would leave a complaint about some problem or other, or simply post a link, then the other two would wade in, using links to articles on Kremlin-friendly websites and comedy photographs lampooning western or Ukrainian leaders with abusive captions. Afterward, RT blamed anti-racists for violence and promoted two videos shot at the event. Those with the best English skills posed as Americans and created accounts on Facebook and Twitter. Goodbye to murderer", "Shadowy Facebook account led to real-life Trump protests", "Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads", "Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says", "Thousands gather in Midtown to protest Trump's DACA decision", "Twitter Has Turned Over Zero New Russian Troll Accounts to Congress", "Democrats rebuke Twitter for 'frankly inadequate' response to Russian meddling", "Fake news on Twitterincluding from Russiaflooded swing states that helped Trump win", "Exclusive: Russian Propaganda Traced Back to Staten Island, New York". The Internet Research Agency (IRA; Russian: -, romanized:Agentstvo internet-issledovaniy), also known as Glavset (Russian: )[1] and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino (Russian: ), is a Russian company engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests. That's what you can see from the outside. You have to be strong to stay clean when you spend your whole day submerged in dirt, he said. Optikov, St. Petersburg, 4 Optikov Street, Building 3, St. Petersburg, 55 Savushkina Street, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, d. 79 litera A. pom 1-N, ul. During the same time period, it had created 25 pages targeting right-wing audiences, and these had attracted a total of 1.4 million followers. Some local activists became suspicious of the motives behind the event because St. Paul police were not involved in the shooting. [97][105][106], In May 2015, a trolling company employee Lyudmila Savchuk in Saint Petersburg sued her employer for labor violations,[107] seeking to disclose its activities. AZIMUT Hotels combines owned, operated and franchised hotels as well as hotels on the . Several people who worked in this building were recently named in an indictment filed by U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. 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