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  • 2021-09-28 (xsd:date)
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  • the United States and others.An international cybersecurity system already exists within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (en)
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  • On September 26, Russia’s state-owned media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) published an interview with Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).RT split the interview into multiple segments, all focused on the United States. The interview was cited or reprinted by all other Russian state-controlled media.A veteran of Soviet intelligence, Naryshkin is one of President Vladimir Putin’s trusted allies. The two reportedly forged a friendship while training at the Soviet KGB academy in the 1970s. Putin went so far as to say in 2007 that he favored Naryshkin as his successor.Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov at a meeting with intelligence officers in Moscow in this undated photo.In his RT interview, Naryshkin wove together misleading rhetoric and fact to portray Russia as a guardian angel of cyberspace rather than a security threat. A voluminous record suggests otherwise.Naryshkin was asked if the international community" needed to "recognize the existence of cyber powers and their abilities" and perhaps impose "restrictions" on the use of such powers. He responded that Russia is in fact at the forefront of the global effort to impose cyber order:"You know that the Russian state is making attempts to create an international information security system on various international platforms."The claim is misleading.Russia’s proposals to create an international cybersecurity system follow decades of allegations of cyberattacks against foreign targets (en)
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