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Glory in Ukraine. The hacked correspondence of Surkov is part I
Yesterday, Ukrainian hackers laid out for open access to the full array of correspondence from the working box Vladislav Surkov, assistant Vladimir Putin. The once gray cardinal, who oversaw domestic policy, today he formally is responsible for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and informally (and this is confirmed by correspondence) even for Ukraine. The authenticity of the correspondence is not in doubt - and not only because it is believable to fake several thousand letters an extremely difficult task, but also because it contains many personal data, starting with a copy of the passports of Surkov and his family and ending with his colleagues mobile phones. Today, The Insider posts the first part of the correspondence that reveals some details of the invasion of Ukraine and the methods of managing Abkhazia, as well as allowing to find several unexpected friends of Surkov in correspondence. < Read the second part of the correspondence here >
The main part of the correspondence concerns (as one should expect from the working mail) supervised by the Surkov topics - Ukraine, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and a little Transnistria. Basically, the assistant Surkova, Maria Vinogradova, operated on the mailbox. And although working correspondence probably does not give a complete picture of the real activity of Surkov, some curious details in it can still be found. So, for example,the information is confirmed that at the early stage of the invasion of Ukraine an important organizational role was played by Konstantin Malofeev, accused of raiding the Orthodox oligarch.
On May 13, Surkov comes from Malofeev a letter:
The attachment is a list of candidates for the "government" of the so -called DPR:
People from this list were then advanced to the “government” of the so -called DPR. Moreover, if the head of the security service of Malofeev Igor Girkin (Strelkov) on May 12 (that is, before the departure of the letter) proclaimed himself the head of the Armed Forces of the DPR, then Denis Pushilin became the head of the self -proclaimed republic (or, as they themselves called this position, the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the DPR) only on May 15, that is, after agreement with Surkov. A number of other figures in the Malofeev list also received an increase after this letter, including Zakharchenko, who replaced another protege of Malofeev - Alexander Boroday.
Surkov was also asked to employ promising militants:
The same Georgy Bryusov prompted Surkov what wrong groups of VKontakte should be closed:
If you thought that Georgy Bryusov is a strategist and an analyst from some expert center serving Surkov, then you are mistaken: Bryusov is an athlete, the first vice -president of the Russian wrestling Federation and the assistant deputy Karelin, which very well illustrates the professional level of Surkov’s environment. However, all Surkov’s voluntary assistants as a selection, just look at this letter:
Perhaps it seemed to you that Zatulin's Kontantin sent an incredibly daring letter to Surkov? But no, in fact, Zatulin did not call Surkov a helpful fool, he was simply to each of his letters sent to Surkov (and for some reason he will send all his articles, speeches and statements to him almost daily), attaches a separate document with a signature - which, they say, sent you his statement. By the way, in this case, a statement was attached to the letter, in which Zatulin called the deputy Valery Rashkin, for the fact that he proposed returning to Ukraine, who escaped from there after the revolution of corrupt officials.
Ukraine is not the only topic discussed in correspondence. Much attention was paid to unrecognized republics - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - formally Russia recognized them with “independent states”, but the degree of their independence is perfectly traced in the correspondence of Surkov. Say, if Abkhazia wants to adopt the law, it must lead it through the Ministry of Justice of Russia:
At the same time, Abkhazov still tries not to offend and specially agree on a politesian:
Some former Surkov’s colleagues in the presidential administration continue to coordinate their texts with him. Here, for example, is a letter from Alexei Chesnakov on November 1, 2014:
Here is the text from the investment:
Here are just the agreed text now Chesnakov is not promoting in the advanced media, as it was once, but on a little-known propaganda Internet resource:
Among the friends of the correspondence of Vladislav Surkov, there are not only propagandists. Here, for example, entrepreneur Evgeny Chichvarkin in advance sends his review of the story of Surkov “Uncle Vanya”:
After some time, this review is published in the journal Pioneer:
But, for example, a letter from businessman Alexander Lebedev:
The letter is not signed text:
It may seem that a businessman simply wants to share his thoughts with Surov. But in reality, this is the previously published article by economist Vladislav Inozemtsev, and the most controversial of his articles, in which he offers no less prohibiting capital export to pay debts. A strange position for both foreigner and Lebedev, usually defending liberal market positions.