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Two individuals headed the IRA's management: its general director, Mikhail Bystrov, and its executive director, Mikhail Burchik.

As early as the spring of 2014, the IRA began to hide its funding and activities.

The IRA's U.S. operations are part of a larger set of interlocking operations known as "Project Lakhta,"


 * B. Funding and Oversight from Concord and Prigozhin

Until at least February 2018, Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and two Concord companies funded the IRA. Prigozhin is a wealthy Russian businessman who served as the head of Concord.