Putin threw the lives of those boys away, the top leaders were a part of this, Prigohzin: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/26/17044930/yevgheny-prigozhin-putin-mueller-troll-farm Apparently, some of the mercs doing this because there is low employment in Russia. Putin would be thrown out on his ear in a free election.
The Putin trolls are despicable and said very ugly things about Nemtsov 3 years ago, maybe some of them have been banned. It seems the Putin trolls are either white nationalists types or outright trolls. They are pitiful and do not represent the Russian people but just their criminal leaders.
You present VOX as your ‘source’?
LOL