Who really wrote this post on Dmitry Medvedev's official page on VKontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, which appeared overnight from Monday to Tuesday and then quickly deleted?
“VKontakte administrators will deal with those who hacked the page, wrote and published the deleted message,” a spokesman for the former Russian president told Russian news agency Interfax.
The official version therefore leans towards piracy, but the message in question is in line with recent statements by Medvedev.
The former right-hand man of Vladimir Putin, once considered a moderate figure, is now subscribed to sensational statements, for example qualifying opponents of Russia as "bastards" and "degenerates" or evoking the use of nuclear weapons .
In the post in question, Kazakhstan, whose relations with Russia are going through turbulence because of its declared neutrality on the subject of Ukraine, was described as an "artificial state" and accused of "genocide" against the Russian minority which lives in this country, a similar accusation made without proof by Moscow against Ukraine to justify its military intervention.
The posting of this message on Dmitry Medvedev's page came as several countries that once belonged to the Soviet Union have become concerned since Moscow launched a military intervention in Ukraine.
Echoing those fears, the deleted message claimed that Georgia, a Caucasus country that faced Moscow in a war in 2008, could only exist as part of Russia.
According to the message, "all the peoples who once inhabited the great and mighty USSR will once again live together in friendship."
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