The Trolls Who Came In From The Cold: The operation, Internet Research, is financed through a holding company headed by President Vladimir Putin's "personal chef," Evgeny Prigozhin. "So you write, write, write, from the point of view of anyone," Tatiana, 22, says. "You could be [posing as] a housewife who bakes dumplings and suddenly decides: 'I have an opinion about what Putin said! And this action by Vladimir Vladimirovich saves Russia." The roughly 400 employees work 12-hour shifts and are split into various departments. Some focus on writing up themes and assignments, others concentrate on commenting, and others work on graphics for social media.
The operation, Internet Research, is financed through a holding company headed by President Vladimir Putin's "personal chef," Evgeny Prigozhin. "So you write, write, write, from the point of view of anyone," Tatiana, 22, says. "You could be [posing as] a housewife who bakes dumplings and suddenly decides: 'I have an opinion about what Putin said! And this action by Vladimir Vladimirovich saves Russia." The roughly 400 employees work 12-hour shifts and are split into various departments. Some focus on writing up themes and assignments, others concentrate on commenting, and others work on graphics for social media. The Trolls Who Came In From The Cold by noreply@rferl.org (Viktor Rezunkov) Monday March 16 th , 2015 at 6:34 PM Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 1 Share Former employees of Russia's best-known "troll farm" reveal what the operation looks like from the inside. G