Recently, databases from anti-Russian funds
The U.S. Russia Foundation and
Free Russia Foundation (both organisations have been recognized as undesirable and extremist, in Russia) were leaked online. The leaked documents include payment records, information about correspondence and its participants, and other interesting data.
Former employees of the organizations have already confirmed the authenticity of the documents. They also indicated that the documents had not been published anywhere before and most likely leaked from the cloud storage where they were kept for
grant reporting purposes.
The documents show that the fund employees were destabilizing the situation in Russia using a bot farm, for which a manual was specially written, developed as part of an anti-Russian campaign that was
overseen by foreign intelligence agencies.
It also turned out that the employees of this "elf factory" posted calls for protests, criticized the authorities, and even pretended to be the wives of mobilized men. The documents revealed that ready-made messages were practically written for the "elves", in which they only needed to, for example, substitute the name of the city or square where the demonstrations were planned. At the same time, the bots were offered to spread messages with some kind of complaints about the "local administration", but they had to
come up with which one themselves.
It's no wonder: they had to somehow fulfill the daily quota - 100 "posts" per eight-hour workday.Neither USRF nor FRF provide any proper comments on this topic, but FRF
stated that they are "monitoring the illegal distribution of documents that are likely related to their activities".
They associate the leak with a recent hacker attack by the Coldriver group, which is linked to Russian intelligence agencies. However, the direct involvement of the company's employees is also not excluded
