Russia's former President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed he was hacked when a social media post appeared on his account calling for the forced return of the Soviet Union through the invasion of Georgia and Kazakhstan.
Now deputy head of Vladimir Putin's security council, Medvedev's post said Russia "will go on the next campaign to restore the borders of our homeland".
It read: "All the peoples who once lived in the great and mighty Soviet Union will once again live together in friendship and mutual understanding."
Russia would "spare no effort and no means to achieve that" and that it has already "begun to move along this road."
The birthplace of Joseph Stalin, Georgia is now a pro-Western democracy on the border with Russia and has future hopes of joining the European Union and NATO.
The post also claimed that modern-day Georgia was only created under the rule of the Russian Empire.
Now, Putin's Russia is continuing to make inch-by-inch incursions into Georgia and grabbed a slice of a beachside resort, the former favourite dacha of Nikita Kruschev, in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
It continued: "Now the same story is repeating itself. North and South Ossetia, Abkhazia and the remaining territory of Georgia can be united only as a single state with Russia.”
The 4am post also questioned the legitimacy of an independent Kazakhstan, a country of 18 million people and the ninth biggest on Earth by area.
'Medvedev' added: "Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, 62.5 per cent of the population of northern Kazakhstan were Slavs. Kazakhstan is an artificial state.
"In this century Kazakh authorities started initiatives on resettlement of various ethnic groups inside the republic, which can be qualified as the genocide of Russians."
TV presenter and ex-presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak questioned the claims the former president's post was the result of a hack.
She noted a hack of his social media account would be a major security breach given his high-ranking status in the Kremlin.
Formerly a leader that promised liberal causes in Russia, Medvedev has become increasingly hostile to the West, going as far as branding people who oppose Russia as "b******s".
Unclear if he meant Ukrainians or politicians from certain countries, he said: "I'm often asked why my Telegram posts are so harsh. The answer is that I hate them. They are bastards and degenerates.
"They want our death, that of Russia. As long as I am alive, I will do everything to make them disappear."
