According to the presidential press secretary, Vladimir
Putin's aide Vladislav Surkov doesn't use e-mail.
Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov does not use any e-mail and those
who posted allegedly his correspondence in the Internet had to
"sweat out" to fabricate the document, Russian presidential
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
"It is not him [Surkov]. Moreover, I can add that he does not
use e-mail and, therefore, someone had to sweat out, fabricating
this document," the Kremlin spokesman said.
Surkov "does not use" e-mail "in any way" either for office or
personal matters, he added.
"The Russian presidential administration has got acquainted with
the posted ‘Surkov correspondence.’ A curious document," the
Kremlin spokesman said ironically.
The staff of the Russian presidential administration is guided
by the law on state secret, "pursuant to which we’re obliged to
follow the procedural regime very strictly while working with data
and information constituting a state secret and referred to a
particular state secret classification," the Kremlin spokesman
said.
"This is what is tightly regulated. This is what is related to
liability, including criminal responsibility, while all the rest is
not regulated anyway," Peskov said in reply to the question about
whether civil servants were permitted to use personal e-mail
boxes.
The Kremlin spokesman told journalists on Tuesday: "I have known
Surkov for more than 10 years and all this time something has been
ascribed to him either by our or foreign hackers."
In Peskov’s estimate, "he [Surkov] is a very talented person
and, therefore, everyone naturally tries to ascribe something to
him."
"Most frequently, this has nothing to do with reality," the
Kremlin spokesman said.
Some media outlets reported some days ago that Ukrainian hackers
had hacked Surkov’s e-mail with correspondence on alleged plans to
destabilize the situation in Ukraine.