Kremlin puppet master's leaked emails are price of return to political frontline
by Shaun Walker in Moscow from Technology | The Guardian on (#1ZD2J)
Russia's Vladislav Surkov fell out of favour with Putin but new role in Ukraine talks has made him target for unknown hackers
Vladislav Surkov was the mysterious Kremlin puppet master who wrote rock lyrics and loved Tupac Shakur yet was simultaneously the chief architect of Vladimir Putin's system of "managed democracy".
Now, after some time on the sidelines, Surkov is well and truly back in the thick of Kremlin intrigue after a cache of emails purporting to show his office coordinating affairs in separatist east Ukraine was leaked online.