Another Russian expert has refuted the fake “hacking of Surkov’s email”
The ongoing campaign in Ukraine around “hacking the email of Russian Presidential Assistant Vladislav Surkov” is a clumsy fake, said Oleg Bondarenko, co-founder of the Agency for Strategic Communications.
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“I was surprised to find internal correspondence of ASK employees, presented as “letters from Surkov’s opened mail.” It is no secret that our Agency has been working closely in the Ukrainian direction for a long time, makes weekly monitoring of major events and publications on them in the media, collects expert comments on current events in Ukraine, and even organizes regular “brainstorming” sessions in order to model the development of events.
This is no secret for Russian journalists, who often took part in them.
Therefore, an attempt to present this as some kind of secret data obtained in a secret way from the supposed mail of an alleged assistant to the President of Russia looks stupid and rather pathetic for its organizers. Which indicates their extremely low professional level in conditions of a total lack of information,” Bondarenko noted.
Earlier, another Russian political scientist, Alexey Chesnakov, ridiculed Ukrainian media reports about the alleged hacking of Surkov’s email.
“The Kyiv authorities are completely stupid with fear. Instead of getting down to business, they make up idiotic news and comment on it themselves. Well, what about the hacking of Surkov’s email by the Cyberjunta group? Such “creative discoveries” of the SBU cannot cause anything but laughter. To refute them will only draw unnecessary attention to the idiot authors. Although…
If you carefully re-read the document published by the Cyber Junta, it becomes clear that it is possible to react. For example, include it in textbooks for PR professionals as an example of incompetence and gross fakery.
Anyone who worked with Surkov knows that only someone who had decided to commit political suicide could send him a document with spelling errors. Of course, people in the Kremlin “are not studying in a philological circle,” but they never neglect the rules of the Russian language.
And in the new protocols of the Kyiv sages, no matter the wording, it’s a gem: “fake stories to satisfy Kolomoisky’s emotional impulses,” “from Poroshenko’s entourage,” “to fight with bullets to the end.” And I recommend not mentioning the pretext “in” in relation to Ukraine in documents for Surkov.
And secondly, Surkov never had any email on a private server. So again, Ukrainian propagandists are in a mess.
There is, however, another version - that all this illiterate leak is designed for the struggle of the authorities with the opposition in Ukraine itself. Some politicians and the media are now accused too openly of having connections with “Muscovites”. But even from this point of view, the work of dill propaganda should be recognized as clumsy. When the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs is the first to shout about the authenticity of the “opening of mail”, inciting volunteers to the Inter TV channel, then it is obvious to everyone that now only some stubborn ragul can talk about freedom of speech in Ukraine,” stated Chesnakov.
Another Russian expert has debunked the "Surkov email hack" hoax.