Former manager of the Russian "factory trolls" moved to live in the US

The former duty manager of the foreign department of the Internet Research Agency (“the trolley factory”), Agata Burdonova, moved to the United States. About this told the publicationRain" with a link to her social network pageVK».

Photo: vk.com/Agata Burdonova

Two sources who in the past worked in the “trolley factory” said that Burdonova and another former employee of the agency, Maxim Elfimov, were assistants to the head of the media and forums section of the “trolley factory” Katarina Aistova. Aistova was not included in the list of the US Department of Justice, in which 13 people are accused of interfering in the US presidential election. At the same time, her chief, the head of the foreign department of the “factory of trolls”, Jeyhun Aslanov, this list is.

According to the interlocutors of Dozhd, Burdonova and Elfimov worked in the department of Aistova as “duty managers”.

Agata Burdonova is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University. At the time she worked at the Internet Research Agency, she was older than most of her colleagues, knew English well, and also taught it.

According to information from the page of Burdonova "VKontakte", she moved to the US 7 December 2017 of the year. She also started YouTube channel и LiveJournal blog, after the Rain article, the woman deleted her page in YouTube. There she talks about her life in the United States, as well as the details of applying for SSN (Social Security Number).

In her blog, she also says that she moved to the United States with her husband, and now they live in the city of Bellevue (Washington state). Burdonova does not speak about her current work. She refused to give a comment to Rain about moving to the United States and denied her connection to the Troll Factory.

On the page of Bourdonova "VKontakte" before leaving for the USA published picture from the farewell party with Katarina Storkovawhich she noted in her post.

Photo: vk.com/Agata Burdonova

Burdonova flew to Seattle not alone, but with her husband, software engineer Dmitry Fedorov, writes "Jellyfish".

Photo: vk.com/Agata Burdonova

Four months before arriving in the US, 8 August 2017, the couple married in St. Petersburg. This happened less than two months after Fedorov wrote “In contact with"That received a" job offer from Facebook».

However, in LinkedIn Fedorov writes that he is a software developer at a game development company. Wargamming.net. His profile says nothing about working in Facebook.

Why they didn't arrest her

On February 16, a special prosecutor investigating Russia's interference in the US presidential election, Robert Muller published a list of 13 citizens of Russia and three Russian organizations accused of conspiring to influence the US electoral process, fraud and identity theft. Neither Burdonova, nor Maxim Elfimov, nor Katharina Aistova appeared on this list.

The “Internet Research Agency” or “troll factory” is associated with the structures of Yevgeny Prigogine, who is called by the media “Putin’s cook” and the founder of the sending Russian mercenaries to the war in Syria, the private military company “Wagner”.

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