THE INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY
In St. Petersburg, Russia, a staff of paid trolls built profiles, pages, personalities and communities to disrupt the United States 2016 election and beyond.
Vladimir Venkov
Vladimir Venkov
Venkov started with the translator project from March 2015 running fake accounts to post, monitor, and update social media content.
Defendant VLADIMIR VENKOV (Венков Владимир) joined the ORGANIZATION by at least in or around March 2015. VENKOV served on the translator project and operated multiple U.S. personas, which he used to post, monitor, and update social media content for the ORGANIZATION.