Konstantin Rykov

Since 2002, he has been working as head of the Internet department of the First Channel of the state television, where he cooperated with art impresario Marat Gelman in a range of political websites.

Rykov's latest media projects include the production of electronic newspapers Дни[1] and Взгляд[2] (Dni and Vzglyad - "Days" and "Look"), publication and promotion of controversial bestselling novelists Sergey Minaev and Eduard Bagirov, and support of Vladimir Putin via several websites.

On 2 December 2007, Rykov was elected as a deputy of the Duma representing Nizhny Novgorod as a candidate of pro-Kremlin party United Russia.

The Senate Intelligence Committee had "concerns" about Rykov and his role in influence operations directed against Ukrainian and United States elections.

[5] These claims, including the role of Cambridge Analytica, were posted a year before Special Counsel Robert Mueller would indict members of the Internet Research Agency involved in active measures to win the U.S. election for Donald Trump and years before FBI indictments revealed the role of WikiLeaks in deploying material hacked from the Democratic National Committee by Fancy Bear, associated with Russian military agency GRU, and by the FSB's Cozy Bear group.