Aleksei, the troll from St. Petersburg, said he was among the first 25 employees hired. Aleksei recalled writing seven or eight blog posts about it. Putin is good, Putin is good,’” he said. Working in a room with about 40 other people, he received a stream of blog posts by other agency writers. He realized, he said, just how much Russia had to struggle against foreign powers, mostly the United States, who sought to control its natural resources.

Source: New York Times February 18, 2018 22:57 UTC