This comment may belong in the previous thread, but it’s rather huge now.

A lot of our talk has assumed that we (or rather Western opinion organs generally) were the main targets of the propaganda war. But reading Illarionov’s piece today suggests the possibility that our flood of Russophile trolls is just the recycled byproduct of what’s being prepared for mainly domestic consumption — to keep the Russian populace on board.

Note that opposition sites in Russia were cyber-attacked as well.