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dotcoma
wow. Russia now 'democratic' at long last ;-)
mkramlich
I picture it going something like this:

1. you follow Medvedev on Twitter

2. KGB follows you

volida
3. If you aren't they will also follow you just in case.
wildmXranat
The red-tape force is strong with this one
vaksel
there is no more KGB, it was called FSK(federal service of counter-espionage) in 1993 and in 1995 they renamed it to FSB(federal service for security)
mkramlich
thank you my lovable fellow professor einstein geek. :)

but seriously, I knew that, and despite that, I said KGB intentionally because it made it a more effective joke

jfornear
FSB is just KGB with a smiley face :)
WiseWeasel
Why did I read that like a Yakov Smirnoff joke?
migiale
fake
ciupicri
It's a verified account, although I don't know how they verified it.
dablya
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like he showed up at their offices...
leff_f
Logically, he should be following Putin.
xelipe
In Mother Russia you don't follow public officials on Twitter, public officials follow you.
raheemm
What it must be like to work in an office where world leaders drop by
vaksel
you'd think they'd bump the Kremlin dude and get that account instead of going with KremlinRussia(do any other countries have Kremlins?)...I'm sure he could be convinced to part with the account
zokier
is he really personally bothering to write there or is it just another pr stunt?
patrickk
If I was to guess, I would say that this is tied to the article on HN a few weeks back about how the Russians want their own version of Silicon Valley.

Rather than sending their president to San Francisco to see how he "gets the web", they would do a lot better by sorting out their corruption problems and improving civil liberties (these are the words of Russian commenters on that article, not me hating :-) )

Janteh
Anyone has more information on why he visited the Twitter office?