# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vardan-kushnir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:30:08.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vardan-kushnir"
name: "Vardan Kushnir"
slug: "vardan-kushnir"
description: "Vardan Vardanovich Kushnir was a notorious spammer of Armenian-Jewish descent who ran the American Language Center (ALC) and who is believed to have spammed the entire population of Russian-language Internet users with ads for his language courses. Kushnir was murdered in 2005."
tagline: "Murdered spammer (1969-2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Vardan_Kushnir.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1969-11-22"
deathDate: "2005-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.96
  momentum:             1.075268817204301
  historical:           6.807416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Кушнир, Вардан Варданович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فاردان كوشنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardan_Wardanowitsch_Kuschnir"
    title: "Wardan Wardanowitsch Kuschnir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardan_Kushnir"
    title: "Vardan Kushnir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardan_Ku%C5%9Dnir"
    title: "Vardan Kuŝnir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "وارطان کوشنیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardan_Ku%C5%A1nir"
    title: "Vardan Kušnir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%94%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B7%D5%B6%D5%AB%D6%80"
    title: "Վարդան Քուշնիր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1960881"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump