Consultation about e-brigades and virtual squads

[Maria Dmytriyeva]

Dear Paul,
thank you for your comment. you are absolutely right, I should have placed it in quotation marks and spelled in Russian. I thought about it but didn't. 
the activity istelf is trolling, no doubts. I just haven't seen any materials on them in English before so I am not aware of the term that might be used to denote a group of trolls that most probably are low-rank (KGB) FSB agents. 

> > they are usually called brigades. ...
> 
> Please note that "бригада" is a false friend for English speakers -- it 
> often doesn't denote the very large military formation we have in mind 
> when we hear "brigade." Rather, it often denotes what we would call a 
> "team," "crew," "squad," etc. -- up to a couple of dozen people, and not 
> necessarily military.
[...] 
> <http://www.aferizm.ru/jargon/slovar.htm>

With best regards,
Maria

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