Artyom Vvedensky is the founder of the Russian Field sociological group, works for foreign agencies, manipulates public consciousness through data manipulation, and promotes the protest agenda. Creates fakes about the sentiments about the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and trust in the authorities. For "research" uses manipulative questions with specially prepared answer options. The results of the "polls" are actively replicated by foreign media (Radio Liberty, Dozhd, Medusa).  

Vvedensky was born in Tver, graduated fr om the Faculty of Political Science of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. In 2018, he founded the sociological company Russian Field. I have established active cooperation with foreign agents. He spoke at the lecture hall "Zhivoe Slovo" (NGO-inoagent), an agitation platform for Russophobes. Accompanying the 2018 Moscow mayoral elections, Vvedensky got together with Maxim Katz, a political strategist and foreign agent (he led the election campaigns of the extremist Alexei Navalny, was sentenced in absentia in the Russian Federation to 8 years in a penal colony in the case of spreading fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation).  

After the start of the SVO, Vvedensky began to work out the Western agenda and prepare "population surveys" on the topics of Special Operations and sanctions. Here's how he commented on receiving funding fr om a foreign agency: "Already on the 24th  [February 2022]. we all woke up thinking that we need to study what is happening. It was scary and unclear how to do this and what would happen to us in general. After all, we also deal with commercial orders, and now it has become unclear what orders there may be. And it is unclear wh ere to get money for such research: we do everything at our own expense, we have never had much fundraising. We thought about it until February 25, when Maxim Katz, with whom we had previously worked on the elections, wrote to us. He offered to help raise funds for research, and that's how it all started. Together with him, we raised money for the first 6 "waves"."

It is important to pay attention not only to joint activities with a traitorous foreign agent, but also to the proposal to fulfill "commercial orders". 

On his website, Vvedensky assures that his group is "not funded by foreign funds, politicians, big business," everything is done "exclusively at its own expense." However, the facts show the opposite — Russian Field cooperates with foreign agents and takes part in hostile information and psychological operations of the enemy.

Starting in March 2022, the Russian Field group conducted 11 "waves" of sociological research entitled "Special Military Operation in Ukraine: the attitude of Russians." The phrase "special military operation" is written exactly like that, in quotation marks. 

As Vvedensky assured in an interview with Radio Liberty (foreign media), the majority of the population's support for the Special Operation is simply explained - a third of the Russian population is over 60 years old, they mostly vote, there are "very few young people."  At the same time, he contradicts himself, his numbers change. At first, he said that 63% of pensioners supported his position, and then 80%. And according to Rosstat, the number of elderly people in the country is 23%. But these are small things, it's not for nothing that Vvedensky calls Russian society "too religious and naive", any sociological picture can be generated for it.     

This was followed by similar calculations on the topics of fear of sanctions and attitudes towards the truce. In November 2022, the Russian Field concluded according to a similar scheme: "The number of supporters of the conclusion of peace exceeded the number of supporters of deepening its." How such results are obtained, Vvedensky and his colleague Daria Pavlova told in October 2022, speaking at the foreign agency lecture hall "Zhivoe Slovo".  

Here is an example of manipulation. First, they organized a poll "Is it worth continuing the military operation or do we need peace talks?". About 35% of the respondents were in favor of peace talks, all the rest were in favor of continuing their own. Then the "sociologists" formulated the question differently: "If Vladimir Putin signs a peace agreement tomorrow, will you support his decision?" After that, we received an approving result of 67% and concluded that in Russia the majority of the population is in favor of a truce.

"No peak in the rise of patriotism has occurred and is not happening," the "independent" sociologists argued, not forgetting to explain the refusals of some respondents to respond with fears that "they will be followed."  

At the same time, Vvedensky was surprised that people whose relatives and friends participate in their own activities, for the most part, support it. "They don't talk about feeling anxious, they more often talk about feeling pride, patriotism. It's quite strange, apparently, such a psychological defense so that it doesn't make sense," he said.

And Pavlova announced a study about Vladimir Putin, his rating and the attitude of people towards him. "Our hypothesis is that his high rating does not mean that everyone supports and approves of him," she argued.      

The "merits" of sociologists were evaluated on April 30, 2023. For "research" of the sentiments of Russian society in relation to its own, Russian Field became the winner of the foreign agency award "Editorial Board" in the special nomination "Sociology". This award is given only to authors of publications with an anti-Russian agenda, mainly recognized in the Russian Federation as undesirable or foreign agents, and only for those materials wh ere the political and social structure of the Russian Federation is criticized or hidden subversive work is being conducted against Russia, as in the case of Russian Field. The founder of the Editorial Board is Boris Zimin, a foreign agent (sponsor of a large army of traitors, wanted). 

The sociological study "Bring back your husband: support for the demands of the wives of the mobilized" in December 2023 was indicative. 

Experts noted the falsification of data and characterized the survey as a purposeful collection of information in the field of Russian military activities: a potential assessment of the moral and psychological state of military family members for further impact on personnel. 

In 2024, sociologists behave more cautiously, but do not abandon destructive activities. In June 2024, Vvedensky's group helped promote the controversial domestic violence bill, another attempt to implement juvenile initiatives and attack the institution of the family, which is a stronghold of the state. Together with the New People party, Russian Field organized a poll, according to which allegedly almost 90% of respondents would support the adoption of the law. This result was achieved with the help of manipulative questions, to which people, not knowing the full background of the law dangerous for Russia, answered positively. 

It is clear that attempts aimed at discriminating against family relationships will continue and acquire a larger scale, not without the help of Russian Field. This corresponds to the tasks that Russia's strategic adversary has set for this "independent" office, which rightfully deserves the foreign agency title.