STOLYAROV Alexey Vladimirovich (also known as the Pranker Lexus) was born on September 16, 1987, in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). There is no available information about his early years and origins, but as he claims, he received an economics degree, after which he 'worked with public procurement in commercial organizations.'
OSTASHKO Ruslan (b. 1979 in Donetsk) grew up in Ukrainian Sevastopol and moved to Moscow in 1996. In 2003, he graduated from the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB with a degree in law. Since 2005, he has been heading the OST Media company, which initially created websites, did advertising on the Internet, and organized celebrations.
PROKHANOV Alexader Andreyevich (b. 1938 in Tbilisi) graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1960. He has been engaged in literary work since 1959. In 1968, he became a journalist for the Literary Newspaper, which was considered "liberal" by Soviet standards, but not in covering foreign policy issues.
LURIE Oleg Anatolyevich (b. 1963 in Kharkiv) graduated from the philological faculty of Kharkiv State University in 1988. Having lived a year in Canada, he returned to the USSR in 1990 and became the manager of singers Larisa Dolina and Vladimir Kuzmin. In 1992, he moved to Moscow and headed the International Slavic Charity Foundation.
KORNILOV Vladimir Vladimirovich (b. 1968) is an anti-Ukrainian propagandist, a supporter of the so-called “Russian world,” ex-director of the Ukrainian branch of the Institute of the CIS Countries. He is a permanent participant in the Russian propaganda TV shows, an observer of the Russia Today International Information Agency. He is regularly published on propaganda websites Ukraina.ru and Politnavigator.
KULISTIKOV Vladimir Mikhailovich (b. 1952) is a Russian media manager. Born in East Germany where his parents worked at the Soviet-German uranium enterprise, he graduated from the faculty of International Journalism MGIMO in 1974. After that, he worked at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade, then at the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences. In 1985, he became Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Novoye Vremya magazine.
KURGINYAN Sergey Yervandovich (b. 1949) graduated from the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute with a degree in geophysics in 1972. In 1974 – 1980, he was a researcher at the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1980 – 1986, he was a Senior Researcher at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. He has been a theater director since his student years.
KUZICHEV Anatoly Alexandrovich (b. 1969 in Moscow) graduated from Moscow State Construction Institute. Since 1993, he has been a host at the radio stations Panorama, Radio Rocks, and Nostalgie. For some time, he hosted the Day After Day program on the TV-6 Moscow channel.
GABRELIANOV Ashot Aramovich (b. 1989 in Ulyanovsk) entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University in 2005.
Gasparyan Armen- Head of a Department at Russia Today state media holding. Propagandist, radio host, blogger. He hosts the Parallels and Weekly Report programs at the Vesti FM radio station.
