Our people in Washington

The US Ministry of Justice charged 13 to Russians of a criminal conspiracy against the United States. Petersburg has a special honor: most of the defendants in the criminal case are our countrymen.

On February 16, the Commission of the US Department of Justice, headed by special prosecutor Robert Muller, made official charges in connection with Russia's intervention of the 2016 US presidential election. The Ministry of Justice charges were brought by three organizations and 13 citizens of the Russian Federation. On 37 pages - specific facts and details: bank accounts, surnames, dates, amounts of money transfers, email addresses.

Evgeny Prigozhin

Prigozhin is known to the whole world today both as “Putin’s cook”, and as a possible father of the troll factory and as a person who can stand behind the infamous private military company Wagner. Most of his businesses have St. Petersburg residence permit. While Fighters of the PMC are dying during the capture of oil fields in Syria, the "sofa front" is still open in St. Petersburg. The New Gazeta was the first to tell about the “Troll Factory”-LLC “Interior Research Agency”, whose employees received a salary for Prochrevsky posts and comments on social networks. Investigations of several media have shown that the factory is connected with attacks on opposition activists.

Mikhail Bystrov

The Russians learned about Mikhail Ivanovich when in 2014 the staffing of the Internet Research Agency got into the network. There, Bystrov, who is now 59 years old, occupied the first line among employees of the management apparatus - General Director. Opposite his surname was a “monetary allowance” of 150 thousand rubles. He still holds a similar position in Glavset LLC, which serves to cover the activities of the Troll factory.

Mikhail Burchik

His name also stood on the staffing of the “Internet Research Agency”. He was an executive director and received 180 thousand rubles “allowances”. Before becoming the hero of the news agencies of the whole world, Burchik was a modest municipal state roser. However, not quite modest. Thus, the most active customer of this individual entrepreneur - MO Smolninskoye - paid him two million rubles for the film about the district and the municipal newspaper. On the day of publication of the accusations of the Ministry of Justice, “New” called the Burchik on the phone, but he said that he did not understand how he was on the list, promised to figure it out and asked to call back the next morning. Needless to say, the next day, Mikhail Leonidovich did not pick up the phone? Therefore, we can believe the American Ministry of Justice that Burchik met with Prigozhin and planned the activity of the factory.

Robert Bovda

In the "Internet Research Agency" Robert Bovda held the post of analyst. This is data for 2014, when the notorious list was published. According to the fresh data of the US Ministry of Justice, the 28-year-old Bovda was deputy head of the translators department, and he was refused an American visa, considering the pretext for visiting the country far-fetched.

Bovda developed the ability to analytics at the SPbSU psychiatric facility, studying the psychology of crisis and extreme situations. He defended his diploma on the topic "The experience of loneliness by elderly people depending on the conditions of social support." A couple of years ago, on the YouDo portal, Bovda himself told about himself like this: “I am well versed in computers and in everything connected with them. From setting up the Internet and restoring access to encrypted data to the assembly of a new PC from scratch. In addition, I know English well. Of course, I would not undertake to translate Hamlet, but an essay or an article will not cause difficulties. ” Robert did not answer the VKontakte correspondent.

Maria Bovda

Robert’s namesake can be found in VKontakte under the nickname Masha Belyaeva (according to the Likenul service, the page was called Maria Bovda, and the photographs on it Likal Robert Bovda). According to information from the social network, the girl studied at the Hydrometeorological University, where she theoretically could get acquainted with another person involved in the criminal case - Jaykhun Aslanov. The staffing of the “Internet Research Agency” is indicated as an analyst in Bovda (Belyaeva) Maria Anatolyevna. In the list of the Ministry of Justice-as the head of the translator department (2013-2014). In open sources, Maria can be found among the conference participants in the Open GIS 2015 Geoinformation systems. The place of her work in 2015-the GIS-specialist of the Center for Transport Planning of St. Petersburg also appears there.

In the correspondence with the journalist of “New”, Maria Bovda herself did not comment on her involvement in intervention in the American elections: “For many years I have been working in a completely different field and all my friends know about it.”

Gleb Vasilchenko

Gleb graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 2013, defending a diploma with a degree in advertising. The university’s website still has a photograph of a young man with a signature: “During the evening, a fourth -year student Gleb Vasilchenko pleased the guests with poems about Vshymk.” On January 19, he registered as an individual entrepreneur, and as the main indicated the “activities of advertising agencies”. Twitter suspended Vasilchenko’s account, as happened with hundreds of accounts associated with the “troll factory”. However, it is not known whether this is directly related to. Vasilchenko He was responsible for the publication of content from numerous accounts on social networks and at the same time seemed to be an American citizen.

Gleb Vasilchenko // Photo: vk.com

Alexandra Krylov

"New" found the most likely defendant in the list of the US Ministry of Justice, which served as director. The resume of Krylova Alexandra Yuryevna is still hanging on the network. It states that a woman claims to be a vacancy of a guide-translator or tourism manager. Among the completed educational institutions, the “Association of Guides-Transporters of St. Petersburg” and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Aerospace Engineering (Petersburg) are indicated. In VK, only two women with the name associated with the GUAP managed to find. One of them indifferently replied that she was confused with someone. Another Sasha Krylova is a proposal to discuss the charges against her in the United States, she read, but did not answer.

Alexandra Krylova // Photo: vk.com

According to the US Ministry of Justice, In 2014, Krylova, under a false pretext, visited the United States-Nevada, California, New Mohiko, Illinois, Michigan, Louisian, Texas, New York in order to collect the information necessary for organizing. In the Empire, Prigozhin Krylova worked since September 2013, first in AII, and then-the general director of RIA FAN (Federal News Agency), which is also associated with Prigozhin.

Anna Bogacheva

Bogacheva was a student, and then a graduate student at the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. In 2010, she became one of the winners of the scholarship program of Vladimir Potanin. In 2014, I registered IT ATI Debagger LLC, in which he is a general director. The HeadHunter website states that the company "is engaged in the creation and promotion of sites, the development of PR campaigns and strategies for promoting any products."

Sergey Polozov

Polozov - founder and general director of carrot LLC. Useful web development ”since 2013. The company is engaged in the development of sites. On the mobile phone indicated in the description of “Carrots”, Olga Matyushevskaya answered, who refused to comment on the accusations brought in the United States to her colleague Polozova, or to help contact him. According to the US Ministry of Justice, he was responsible for the purchase of American servers with which the agency masked its activities in America.

Sergey Polozov // Photo: vk.com

Jayhun Nasimi Ogly Aslanov

The investigation of RBC said that Aslanov came to St. Petersburg from the Irkutsk region at the end of the zero. On the network you can find documents that Aslanov studied at the Faculty of Economics of the Hydrometeorological University. He was called the head of the "American department" of the "factory".

Aslanov is the founder and general director of the company "Center for the Management of the Reputation" and "Azimuth". Both are engaged in advertising and advisory work, as well as translations. However, according to the Ministry of Justice, through the Azimut, Kondozhin's Holding Holding financed the activities of the agency.

P.​ S.​ It was not possible to find more or less reliable information about other defendants. However, three more people appear in the list of the Ministry of Justice:

Vadim Vladimirovich Podkopaev served as an analyst in the translator department, was responsible for monitoring the political situation in the United States and a selection of content for social networks.

Irina Viktorovna Kaverzina was a translator, and also operated on accounts of fictional American citizens, which she used to publish content related to the presidential election.

Vladimir Venkov was an employee of the translator department and oversaw several fake accounts supposedly belonging to US citizens.