# Konstantin Rykov **Konstantin Rykov** (born May 27, 1979, Moscow; online alias "Jason Foris") is a pro-Kremlin internet entrepreneur and former United Russia Duma deputy who publicly claimed, after the 2016 election, to have worked for years on a project to help elect Donald Trump. ## Career Rykov ran Channel One's internet department from 2002 and a string of pro-Putin websites, including the news site Vzglyad. He was elected to the Duma for United Russia in December 2007 and served until 2011. ## The Trump posts Trump replied to one of Rykov's tweets in November 2012. Rykov launched a pro-Trump Russian-language website in 2015. In Facebook posts on November 12 and 16, 2016, he described "four years and two days" of work involving Trump, [[Cambridge Analytica]] and Russian actors, adding that the effort succeeded with Trump but "unfortunately failed" with [[Marine Le Pen]]. These posts are self-promotional claims, not evidence of an operation, and should be read as a boast. **Current status:** not verified. All facts here are single-sourced to Wikipedia. ## RWKB angle Rykov is a Kremlin-media operator who openly bragged about 2016 — useful as a primary artifact of how Russian propagandists narrated [[Russian Election Interference]] to their own audience. ## See Also - [[Russian Election Interference]] - [[Internet Research Agency]]