Paul
Goble
Staunton, October 25 – In a case
where those who live by hacking may die by it, Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin’s
point man on Ukrainian policy, has had his computer hacked by Ukrainian
activists who have now posted online two documents detailing on the Kremlin
plans to destabilize Ukraine over the next five months.
A Ukrainian hacker group said
yesterday that it had broken into the email accunt of Vladimir Surkov, Putin’s
chief advisor on Ukraine and was now publishing two documents, one about Surkov’s
plans for destabilizing Ukraine in the next three months and a second on forming
a Transcarpathian Republic (cyberhunta.com/news/kiberhunta-peredaet-privet-surkovu/).
While there is no way to
independently confirm that the documents are in fact from Surkov’s email
account, their level of specificity make them plausible and thus deserving of
scrutiny. What will be potentially even more interesting is if CyberHunta
publishes more such materials in the future as it promises to do.
The first document is 15 pages long
and lists a series of steps Russia should take between November 2016 and March
2017 to destabilize Ukraine and provoke new parliamentary and presidential
elections. Among the steps listed are talks with Ukrainian opposition parties
to organize protests in the form of a “Customs Maidan” in the second half of
November.
Other measures include activating
some deputies in the Ukrainian parliament to expand corruption probes of the
Ukrainian president and his team, and perhaps most worrying of all, “to
introduce among volunteers [promoting these measures] one’s own people in order
to sow panic, provoke church marches, and develop separatism in the regions.”
The second, shorter document
concerns Surkov’s ideas on how best to promote the formation of a
Trans-Carpathian “republic” in cooperation with Hungarian groups in order to
weaken Kyiv’s rule.
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