The US Department of Justice was charged to six Russians of the distribution of malicious programs and cyber attacks on the infrastructure of other countries and the impact on the elections in the interests of Russia. The attacks were committed on France (attempt to hack information about the party of Emmanuel Macron), Ukraine (attack on the energy system), South Korea (attack during the 2018 Olympic Games), Georgia (tried to compromise Georgian media companies and state -owned enterprises) and the USA. The attacks in question took place from November 2015 to October 2019.

The most destructive series of computers of attacks

The press release of the US Ministry of Justice speaks mainly about the “attempts” of hacks, but it is emphasized that malicious software “caused damage to computers and critical infrastructure around the world” and “led to colossal financial losses in companies and organizations injured from it”.

The assistant to the US Prosecutor General for National Security John Demers called the alleged actions of Russians "the most destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to one group."

The British Foreign Ministry on Monday made the statements that the Russian intelligence services with the help of cyber attacks tried to disrupt the Olympics in Tokyo-before its transfer in 2021 due to pandemia. Attacks on the Olympic infrastructure are explained by the fact that Russian athletes were not allowed to be games under the national flag due to a doping scandal.

It is noteworthy that Russian hackers were not officially accused of interfering with the American elections, it is only a few companies, but it is reported that hackers are from the same unit that in 2016 was engaged in a hacking records of the democrats e -mail accounts.

Characters and Russophobia

The military unit No. 74455 GRU (during the reform of the Armed Forces, military intelligence began to be called the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, but throughout the world it continues to be called GRU) Western intelligence services have long been associated with the activities of hackers. It is located in Khimki near Moscow, its employees have already been charged with such charges. The names and photographs of the current accused were represented by the US Ministry of Justice:

- Yuri Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergey Vladimirovich Children, Pavel Valerievich Frolov, Anatoly Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valerievich Ochichenko and Peter Nikolaevich Pliskin.

Russian Embassy in Washington:

- The accusations are aimed at warming the Russophobic sentiments in American society, they have nothing to do with reality. There is a deployment of “witch hunt” and spyingomania.

Rusophobia was found in this by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov:

- We saw, we are observing the tendency when Russia and Russian representatives, Russian special services are already accused of everything and everything. This, in fact, is simply reminiscent of such with constancy of the relaxed relapses of frantic Russophobia, which, of course, has nothing to do with reality. The Russian Federation and Russian intelligence services have never made any hacker attacks, especially against the Olympics.

There is still nowhere worse - before the election

The deputy director of the Center for Political Technologies, Alexei Makarkin, believes that no reaction of Russian officials can worsen already bad relations with the United States, in Russia in such situations they only look at internal interest, but it is not: it is not: it is not:

- One part of society believes that this is an American lie, the other believes that if the Americans are telling the truth, then ours are doing the right thing, so, they say, they need to. But both of them are of little interest. There are too few people who do not trust official information, and since there is no interest, then there is no need to attract excessive attention to the topic.

The director of the development of the XXI century technology, military expert Ivan Konovalov agrees with him:

-I do not think that someone will seriously perceive such a campaign, especially since this happens two weeks before the American elections. You can not seriously relate to what is happening on the eve of the election.

By the end of the election campaign, the release of information that has been developed for a long time is always activated, says the senior researcher at the Institute of the United States and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pavel Koshkin:

- What was only supposed to be presented as a fact. I do not want to say that this is true or not true, a politician just works - a convenient moment. The glow will continue to grow to the supernoon. All kinds of leaks in newspapers will also appear, Koshkin awaits. The expert emphasizes that so far the accusations are only rhetoric and suppose the introduction of sanctions, in his opinion, is not worth it in the near future. “Before the elections, this will not happen, sanctions can only be discussed after proven facts. The United States did not even join the sanctions of the European Union due to Navalny's poisoning, taking a wait-and-see position so far.

Any sanctions, Koshkin emphasized, take into account the conjuncture of bilateral relations, and therefore, after the election, the question may arise differently.

Familiar to everything Russians

The Russians have interest in any events when there are consequences for the country, Denis Volkov from Levada Center commented by the situation:

- In this case, the Russians would not be worried about Russian hackers, but what will happen to us for them. There are some addiction to the sanctions - we live and live, and for many this is a reflection of an unfriendly attitude to the country in the West. And the point is not that we are doing something wrong, but that they are used as an occasion to conduct an unfriendly policy to us. Initially, the sanctions were shocked, now they are used to them, although there is a request for discharge, for the normalization of relations, but the Russians believe for the most part that we are ready and want, but they do not want in the West. According to our data, the majority wants the authorities to concentrate on internal matters. They believe that after Crimea they are not respected, then they are afraid, and this is enough. Like, President Vladimir Putin is well done in foreign policy, but let him deal with a socialist. In a sense, isolationism is perceived, which is necessary. This is just discomfort from the fact that in the West someone constantly escapes.

Alexey Makarkin is sure that the urgent issue of Russian-American relations is in different way:

- It is necessary to decide the fate of the Treaty on Strategic offensive Arms III, therefore it makes no sense to sharply be distracted by something extraneous. The public of both countries is too tired of the foreign policy agenda, so the next hacker scandal will hardly radically change the picture in the field of international relations, in which Russia itself set itself in proud loneliness.

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