Today, a Ukrainian hacker group called “Cyber Hunta” released a cache of emails linked to the Kremlin’s “grey cardinal” — Vladislav Surkov. This political operative is well known in the West as the creator of Russia’s “sovereign democracy” and has been the point-man for Russia’s management, and sometimes direct control, of the so-called states of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab: Breaking down the Surkov leaks
Vladimir Putin confers with Vladislav Surkov during a meeting in the Urals city of Kurgan, on Feb. 13, 2012. (AFP)
