Mock account appears following Medvedev's Twitter registration
MOSCOW. July 7. KAZINFORM A fake Twitter account making fun of some of President Dmitry Medvedev's initiatives appeared a few days after the Russian leader opened his account on Twitter, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
On June 23, Medvedev registered KremlinRussia for Russian and KremlinRussia_e for English language tweets during his visit to the hub of the microblog company in California's Silicon Valley.
The mock account has a name spelled differently, KermlinRussia, and is registered to "Persident Roissi" - two Russian words that would normally be spelled "President Rossii" meaning "Russian president."
One tweet posted by KermlinRussia apparently mocked the Kremlin's project of a high-tech center in the Moscow Region's Skolkovo. It said: "Innovations for Skolkovo: nano coating for asphalt has been created in Cheboksary. It increases road adhesion by 350%."
The tweet also gave a link to a real video of how people stick to the ground in Cheboksary.
Skolkovo is the Kremlin's pet project as it seeks to steer foreign investors away from oil and gas toward new technology. It is being built from scratch 20 km (12.4 miles) outside of Moscow. The center will focus on research in five priority spheres: energy, information technologies, communication, biomedical research and nuclear technologies.
Another tweet said: "You need to have understanding that money allocated to modernization and innovations will be spent on corruption and machinations."
Medvedev, who portrays himself as a young and technologically savvy leader, also has a blog on LiveJournal and an account on YouTube.
He has not yet made any comments regarding the fake account, Kazinform cites RIa Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru