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Two individuals headed the IRA's management: its general director, Mikhail Bystrov, and its executive director, Mikhail Burchik. Harm to Ongoing Matter 
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As early as the spring of 2014, the IRA began to hide its funding and activities.  
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The IRA's U.S. operations are part of a larger set of interlocking operations known as "Project Lakhta,"Harm to Ongoing Matter 
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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.

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