Dmitry Medvedev, former president and prime minister of Russia and currently deputy chief of President Vladimir Putin's Security Council, is enjoying the role of Moscow's roughshod.
At the end of July, he confessed his abysmal hatred of the West in a post on Telegram.
You are dealing there with "bastards and scum" who have to be "disappeared".
After the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi on July 21, Medvedev posted the photos of Draghi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had previously resigned, on Telegram, placed a black box next to them with a big question mark and sneered: "Who's next?"
Matthias Rub
Political correspondent for Italy, the Vatican, Albania and Malta based in Rome.
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Five weeks before the snap parliamentary elections on September 25 in Italy, Medvedev has now, again in a tirade on Telegram, given Italian voters an unequivocal recommendation for voting.
"We would like the citizens of Europe to go to the polls not only to express their dissatisfaction with the actions of their governments, but also to punish them for their blatant stupidity," Medvedev wrote.
Because the furor of these governments to "sever all relations with Russia" will lead to "cold apartments and empty refrigerators".