Shevkunov Georgy Aleksandrovich (Tikhon)

Shevkunov Georgy Aleksandrovich (Tikhon)

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2020: Hackers cracked Tikhon's mail and demand the redemption in 10 million rubles

On May 2, 2020 it became known of cracking of e-mail of the metropolitan Pskov and Porkhovsky Tikhon (Shevkunov) who is also the chairman of Patriarchal council for culture and the member of council under the President of the Russian Federation on culture and art.  Hackers demand the redemption in the amount of 10 million rubles for return of access to messages.

The lord told about it to journalists. He said that he is not going to pay journalists.

Yes you that! I for 10 million am ready to lay out all the mail to you now, only list, please, to the Pskov diocese, I will issue all this to you at once". Of course, it is nonsense, it is impossible to encourage blackmailers and such robbers — Tikhon told.

Personal correspondence of the metropolitan began to be published on  the special website and  in  Telegram channels. The priest noted that  he did not want to go on  conditions of blackmailers therefore refused to pay.

At first he  wanted to ignore the event, but  now the quantity of questions from  journalists  concerning correspondence reads off scale, the metropolitan told. He  noted that competent authorities already look for hackers.

Publications of data from mail proceed. The other day the audiofile of his conversation with the director Nikita Mikhalkov was posted online. Shevkunov explains this record as follows.

The metropolitan Pskov and Porkhovsky Tikhon (Shevkunov) told about cracking of the mail

Patriarchal council needed to receive opinion of members of council on how they recommend to react to blasphemous manifestations in the modern art — Shevkunov told. — Nikita Sergeyevich had a special opinion, more difficult. We agreed with it that I will tape telephone conversation ours then to print and edit the text with its position, having removed from it especially expressive passages and some offensive language which, much to my regret, our great director sometimes uses.[1]

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