At the end of the day on 1 August, a post appeared on the VK (Russian main social media - translator’s note) page of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev. In the post, Kazakhstan is referred to as an “artificial state”, while it is also claimed that “North and South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the present territory of Georgia can be joined together only as parts of a united state with Russia.”
The post has been deleted. The post did not appear on the Telegram channel of Medvedev. Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak speculated that his VK page could have been hacked.
Later on, Medvedev’s representative said that his VK page had indeed been hacked, while the last post written by Medvedev was about the Russian navy, reports RIA Novosti, Russian state news agency. The hacker will be dealt with by the social media’s administration and “those whose job it is”, the representative added.
According to the deleted post, Georgia as a country did not exist before 1801, it started to exist only within the borders of the Russian Empire. Kazakhstan, according to the author of the post, is “ex-Russian territories” and the country’s government continuously relocates different ethnic groups, which “could be classified as genocide of Russians”. “We will not close our eyes to what’s going on. Until Russians come there, there won’t be any order,” writes the author.
“All the people that formerly lived in the big and mighty Soviet Union will live together once again, in amity and understanding,” the message says. It also reads that “after Kiev and all the territories of Malorussia have been liberated from nationalist groups preaching the Ukrainism they had made up, Rus’ will, once again, become united, mighty, and unbeatable, just like a thousand years ago during the times of the ancient Russian state.”
“After that, under the leadership of Moscow together with Slavic people, we will go on the next campaign to restore the borders of our Homeland, which, as is known, do not end at any point,” the author of the post goes on to say.
Before that, on the evening of 1 August, Medvedev published a post on his Telegram channel; in it, he said that, currently, the relationship between Russia and the US was “much worse than during the Cold War”. “So much worse! And we are not the ones at fault,” he wrote.