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Headline:
Russian pro-government commentators operate on the Internet.

The confirmation has appeared that there is a paid team of pro-kremlin commentators operating on the Internet.

“Anonymous International” exposed the activity of the “Internet Research Agency” — an organization that is being financed from the budget, which through the use of fake comments creates an illusion of the support of kremlin regime on the Internet.

Here is the website, where the situation is described (in Russian) — http://b0ltai.wordpress.com

Here are the archives of emails (in Russian):
https://mega.co.nz/#!XpgUXIYa!XcjPKUZC7322tKKpls8VPRzB1QkgcAYbhhbNWfag8vE
https://mega.co.nz/#!X5gSBBBZ!W9Iw2Q_sdkxBbFKR-yhnykQd8V4RQ9tcPt5Gdt128H
https://mega.co.nz/#!rhInhRCY!vM93jwt37kGdugOaO-HeO-o9vloYFUU_Nkt-ii_-3Wo

It was found that Russian "trolls" work in areas such as:
1. Leading U.S. information portals (WND, TheBlaze, Politico, Huffingtonpost);
2. Facebook;
3. Twitter;
4. YouTube;
5. Political and social forums.

The goal of this organization is to create negative image of America and Europe on the Internet. Thus the Russian "trolls" mimic the U.S. and European residents, posing as citizens dissatisfied with Obama, US and EU governments.
Their reports also include such topics as: «Sochi», «Maidan», «Doctrine 2050» (lies about U.S. State Department plans), «I'm a patriot» (lies about Khodorkovsky, Navalny, Alferov, PussyRiot, Hakamada and Nemtsov).

It was found that there is a staff of people working in strict reporting to supervisors and writing on the internet paid pro-government comments. Average salary of such commentator is 30000-40000 rubles per month (approx. 1,000 USD). Propaganda is conducted on two fronts: on the Russian Internet and on the international one. Each department has its "experts". The total spending for the last month amounted to 33 million rubles (1 million USD).

As confirmation of the reality of the facts, it is enough to compare scans of passports, discovered in the hacked email accounts with real people's accounts in the social networks.

Some Russian media have already reacted to this:

Novaya Gazeta:
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/59903.html
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/58063.html

The insider:
http://theins.ru/politika/857/
http://theins.ru/politika/872/

grani.ru:
http://grani.ru/Internet/m.229440.html

Blogs:
http://corpuscula.blogspot.fi/search/label/%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81
http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4628235.html