Roman Romachev’s post, is loaded with spoiled borscht in smug digital emojis and faux-academic flair, is nothing more than a thinly veiled piece of state brainwashing posing as education. His so-called “practical course” in Intelligence Analysis of Information is neither practical nor analytical—unless, of course, the goal is to recruit and radicalize a new generation of Kremlin-aligned cyber and cognitive operatives under the laughable branding of “private intelligence.” In reality, what Romachev is facilitating is textbook Russian influence engineering: the weaponization of pseudointellectualism to launder disinformation, stoke paranoia, and manufacture a synthetic sense of nationalist superiority. He is nothing more than a puppet talking head paid to push whatever he is told to push.
The post boasts that the final student work focuses on “a network engaged in scientific and technical intelligence for the West and global elites.” His phrasing is immediately recognizable as a conspiratorial euphemism—an echo of the tired, xenophobic trope of the omnipotent Western cabal that has been at the heart of Russian paranoia and victimhood mythology since the Cold War.
Rather than presenting evidence or engaging in objective analysis, Romachev feeds his students anti-Western dogma under the pretext of intelligence training, indoctrinating them with unverified claims while performing an imitation of analytic rigor.
Romachev’s channels—rtechnocom and proxint—serve nas hubs of fake news and echo chambers for FSB-curated narratives and self-aggrandizing proclamations. His declaration that “we are forming the information army of Russia” strips away any pretense.
His is not education but weaponized miseducation. His content is designed to produce loyalists, not analysts. Lapdogs for the kremlin. His channels are recruiting tools in a larger disinformation and influence operation, training low-grade operators in psychological warfare techniques aligned with Kremlin objectives. He preys on Russian students like a homophobic pedophile in the Orthodox Church.
The grotesque irony lies in how Romachev positions himself as a patriot while regurgitating the very mechanisms of manipulation his supposed “intelligence” training is meant to expose. He does not challenge Russian state narratives; he amplifies them, cloaked in the pseudoscience of armchair espionage. His pedagogical model is a caricature—anti-intellectual, conspiratorial, deeply politicized, and engineered to turn students into assets of cognitive warfare rather than critical thinkers.
Pairing this with the College Fix article on alleged Chinese infiltration of Stanford and U.S. academia only deepens the hypocrisy.
While Romachev feigns concern over Western intelligence collection, he ignores—willfully or otherwise—Russia’s own longstanding campaigns of scientific espionage, cyber intrusion into Western research institutions, and the theft of intellectual property. Treadstone 71’s intelligence work has long illustrated how state-aligned actors like Romachev mirror the very tactics they accuse others of employing.
Tresdsone 71s Delta Electronics report, for instance, exposed Russian use of front companies and malware implants in Taiwanese infrastructure—a real case of technical espionage, in stark contrast to Romachev’s shadowy “network” fantasy.
Furthermore, Romachev lacks even the most basic self-awareness. His call for building an “information army” contradicts every principle of ethical intelligence work, revealing this campaign for what it is: a subversive, aggressive attempt to legitimize information warfare as statecraft under the guise of civilian education. He exploits educational aesthetics—terms like “graduation work” and “training”—to mask the reality that he is fostering ideological radicalization and manufacturing domestic operatives to support Russian disinformation campaigns.
Romachev is not forming analysts. He is cultivating digital saboteurs, indoctrinated by nationalist delusion and fed a diet of conspiratorial paranoia. His channels, his curriculum, and his commentary are all integral parts of Russia’s decentralized disinformation machine—a machine that thrives on mediocrity, mysticism, and militant revisionism. If there is any intelligence analysis being done here, it is being done on his followers, not by them.
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