InfoRos Employees

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Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any foreign person, including a foreign entity, who knowingly engaged or is engaging in interference in U.S. elections, as well as information leading to the prevention, frustration, or favorable resolution of an act of foreign election interference.

InfoRos is a Russian news agency that is primarily run by the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 72nd Special Service Center, also known as Unit 54777, which focuses on malign foreign influence, disinformation, and psychological warfare activities targeting the United States. Unit 54777 operates InfoRos to assist with the spread of false conspiracy narratives and disinformation promoted by GRU officials.

InfoRos’s primary owner Denis Tyurin had previously served in the GRU. Other InfoRos staff who help disseminate InfoRos’s disinformation include Nina Viktorovna Dorokhova, Andrey Vitalyevich Ilyashenko, Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Kamyshanova, Anastasiya Sergeyevna Kirillova, Maksim Iosifovich Krans, Maksim Borisovich Krasovskiy, Yevgeniya Vitalyevna Nezhdanova, and Denis Sergeyevich Tatarchenko.

Between late May and early June 2020, in advance of the U.S. 2020 presidential election, InfoRos published approximately 150 pandemic response articles, many which promoted anti-Western objectives. On April 15, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Tyurin and InfoRos for having engaged in foreign interference in the U.S. presidential election, pursuant to Executive order 13848 and for spreading disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

InfoRos has used a network of websites, including infobrics.org, inforos.ru, infosco.org, and oneworld.press, to spread its false conspiracy narratives and disinformation promoted by GRU officials.