Internet Research Agency

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 6 authorities: Australia DFAT, Switzerland SECO, Japan MOF, New Zealand, OFAC, UK OFSI. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & controlRecords found15 designated individuals recorded in connection with this company: Yevgeniy Viktorovich PRIGOZHIN, Mikhail Ivanovich BYSTROV, Mikhail Leonidovich BURCHIK.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundRussia is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section IV: “High-risk third countries which are not identified as being subject to calls for action or increased monitoring by the FATF, but whose membership in that international standard-setter is suspended”. The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• New ZealandActive

  Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

  Designated 11 May 2022 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

• Switzerland SECOActive

  Situation in Ukraine

  Designated 25 Feb 2022 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• Japan MOFActive

  asset-freeze

  Designated 8 Mar 2022 · Japan MOF Sanctions List

• Australia DFATActive

  Autonomous (Russia)

  Designated 18 May 2022 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

• UK OFSIActive

  Russia

  Designated 15 Mar 2022 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• OFACActive

  ELECTION-EO13848

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

Legal name

Internet Research Agency

Also known as

Internet Research Agency · Internet Research Agency LLC · Azimut LLC · Агентство Интернет Исследований +10

Jurisdiction

RU

First recorded here

18 Jul 2026

1. Alias recorded: Агентство Интернет Исследований

   13 Sept 2026 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

2. Subsidiary recorded: SECONDEYE SOLUTION

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanction listed: OFAC — ELECTION-EO13848

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanction listed: OFAC — CYBER2

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Alias recorded: LAKHTA INTERNET RESEARCH

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Alias recorded: NOVINFO, OOO

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

7 companies, 6 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

Each reading is kept with the methodology version that produced it. A later reading is not a correction of an earlier one — it is a different question asked of more sources.

• Fact

  internet research agency

  Legal name

  Evidence

  14657

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 7 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 6 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  associate:Yevgeniy Viktorovich PRIGOZHIN

  Officer

  Evidence

  No per-record identifier published by this source

  Read 7 Aug 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  RU

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  14657

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 4 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 3 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Russia

  Designation

  Evidence

  14657

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — ELECTION-EO13848

  Designation

  Evidence

  23943

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — CYBER2

  Designation

  Evidence

  23943

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

  Designation

  Evidence

  nz-ENT-28

  Read 8 Sept 2026 · in force from 11 May 2022 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — Autonomous (Russia)

  Designation

  Evidence

  7226

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — Situation in Ukraine

  Designation

  Evidence

  48049

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Japan MOF — asset-freeze

  Designation

  Evidence

  028-000002

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Japan MOF Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

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FALSE

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UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

37 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.