Russian “phone guys” cause confusion

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A Duo of Russian phone-pranksters mock foreign politicians and Stars. Boris Johnson and Elton John were you on the glue, and again and again, Petro Poroshenko, as recently in the case of Northern Macedonia.

The Russian Prankster Vovan (Vladimir Kuznetsov) and Lexus (Alexei Stolyarov)

They call themselves Vovan and Lexus and hot, in reality, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov. A Duo of Russian pranksters, even after the English word “Prankster”, was released on 8. July on YouTube recordings of her telephone conversations with Zoran Zaev, the Prime Minister of Northern Macedonia.

“Prankster” are people who pretend to be on the phone for someone else, and in this way, the conversation partner demonstrate. So you slipped in a number of cases in the role of the Ukrainian Ex-President Petro Poroshenko. There are three recordings of the conversations that were alleged to have been in August 2018, as well as in February and April 2019 led.

In the first recording of a male voice in Zaev, greeted him in English with Eastern European accent answers in the beginning. “Mr. President, are you there?” asks Zaev. “Yes, I am. I hope the weather is good in Macedonia,” answers the voice. Zaev believes that he’s on the phone with Poroshenko.

The former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, was repeatedly targeted by the Prankster

The recording is audible cut and the same after the exchange of pleasantries about the weather Poroshenko speaks”,” about “Russian Aggression”, which has also achieved Zaevs country””. He mentioned events in Greece, apparently, to build confidence or to elicit from his interlocutor an assessment of the situation.

Then, in the summer of 2018, had Greece expelled two Russian diplomats in the country. The accusation: you have been accused of wanting by means of bribery, the agreement between Greece and Macedonia about the settlement of the name dispute to prevent it. The agreement came later, but in power.

Again and again, Poroshenko

In Russian media, which had reported about the fake phone call these days is to read about this Episode, tellingly, nothing. Instead, set the focus to the fact that two Russians have shown once Poroshenko. So Poroshenko, “Zaev told” that he was akin to Alexander the Great.

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Vovan and Lexus, both in their early 30’s, are known for 2014 to a wide audience in Russia, the year of the annexation of Crimea. You have presented countless people from Sport, politics and show business, but their target number one Poroshenko was closely followed by the former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

It managed the two Prankstern to deceive US politicians, including the now deceased Senator John McCain, the Ukraine’s special representative, Kurt Volker, and the Norwegian NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

The then British foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, the two has led 2018 a conversation with the new Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Paschinjan,. Paschinjan had come in consequence of the opposition protests to Power.

Putin calls Elton John

The selection of the victims, and the fact that Russian politicians are left of your jokes mostly spared, as well as access to telephone numbers of senior officials – all of these characteristics have earned the Prankster Duo, the accusation that they were working for Russian intelligence services.

These suspicions Svyatoslav Zeholko, Poroshenko’s press Secretary expressed. It was about the incident from the year 2016, as both the Prankster had tried a fake Interview with Poroshenko, the New York Times to sell it to me. But the reporters of the press asked in Poroshenko’s place, and the fraud was busted. Zeholko accused Russian secret services for it. The Prankster Vovan and Lexus deny the.

For the phone with Elton John in the name of Putin, the Russian President had to apologize to the singer

Once they went for the Kremlin too far. In September 2015, Vovan (Kuznetsov) called the British singer Elton John, a self-confessed Homosexual, and introduced himself as Vladimir Putin. The pop star took to the friendly conversation at face value and told of it in his Instagram Account. He thanked the Russian President for his interest in LGBT issues and suggested a personal Meeting. The Kremlin was forced to react. The real Putin Elton John called personally, and regretted the fact, the “phone guys”, as he called the Prankster.

About the motives, why the two no longer pull again now Poroshenko by the cocoa, although he is for the past two months, the President of Ukraine, to puzzles, only. Maybe the time plays a role. 21. July is elected in Ukraine in case of early election of a new Parliament and Poroshenko’s party is likely to become one of the strongest opposition forces.