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CONCORD was the Deep-pockets backer of Russian Influence campaign in the recent US Elections, as stated on page 3, of the today’s NEW Mueller Indictments:
www.justice.gov/...
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What else will the Google-machine reveal about these attackers of American Democracy? (Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, Concord Catering, and ultimately Evgeny Prigozhin, the CEO.)
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Oct 17, 2017
The Russian "troll factory" that spread misinformation during the 2016 U.S. election, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), was funded by a close ally of Vladimir Putin's, according to a CNN report. The oligarch, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is nicknamed "Putin's Chef." His business, Concord Management and Consulting, had a contact drawn up with IRA in 2013 for 20 million rubles ($650,000).
Why it matters: This is further evidence that election meddling efforts reached into Putin's inner circle.
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Oct 17, 2017
Documents obtained by the news agency show that the Internet Research Agency had ties to a Prigozhin’s Concord Management and Consulting for construction work and that an employee of the firm went on to work at the Russia-based so-called “troll factory.”
The Internet Research Agency has been described as a large part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. In September Facebook announced that it believed $100,000 worth of ads and 470 false accounts were created in connection with the Kremlin-connected agency. The ads reportedly focused on divisive issues such as gun rights, immigration, gay rights and racial discrimination.
from Meduza — 13 June 2016
The businessman Evgeny Prigozhin has filed 15 different lawsuits against the search engine Yandex, hoping to utilize Russia's new law instituting a “right to be forgotten” and make the Internet company delete search results linking to articles that he believes tarnish his reputation. Prigozhin is a man with an impressive biography. He spent nine years in prison; he opened St. Petersburg's most elite restaurant (where Vladimir Putin likes to entertain foreign dignitaries and celebrate his birthday); he's received multibillion-ruble state contracts; and his name has featured prominently in investigative reports about Russia's so-called Internet “troll factories.”
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In September 2013, journalists discovered that Prigozhin owned the infamous “troll factory” in the Olgino region of St. Petersburg. Officially, the founder and CEO of the “Internet Research Agency” was the retired police colonel Mikhail Bystrov, but the agency was created with the help of several people close to Prigozhin. For example, Maria Kuprashevich, who worked in the PR department at Concord, played an important role at the “troll factory” in Olgino.
The Internet Research Agency worked like this: people were hired and paid specially to write posts and comments on social media (praising the Russian authorities, and criticizing the anti-Kremlin opposition). One typical phrase conceived and disseminated by the troll factory in Olgino read, “Alexey Navalny, who calls himself a ‘truth seeker’ and a ‘freedom fighter,’ has earned himself a reputation as a liar, a fraud, and a traitor to Russia. Meeting with representatives of foreign intelligence services, Navalny once again proves that he's on the West's payroll.”
About 400 people worked around the clock in Olgino, sitting at computers and writing on Russian social networks according to pre-prepared scripts.
And that was reported in Russia, back in 2016.
Imagine how sophisticated those Trolls must have gotten in intervening years — wait don’t imagine it, read about their 13 Indictments here:
www.justice.gov/...