Western countries continue to try to maliciously interfere in Russia’s digital space to damage critical infrastructure. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, in a video greeting the participants of the international conference “Digital International Relations 2024”, which is being held at the MGIMO (U) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. of the Russian Federation.
The minister noted that modern technologies, while opening up additional opportunities, “also generate considerable risks.”
“They are manifested in an increase in the number of attempts at malicious interference in the digital space of our country, computer attacks aimed at causing damage to critical infrastructure, as well as the spread of misinformation with the aim of informationally and psychologically influencing the population. . The main source of such challenges is the collective West, which has set itself the goal of maintaining its permissiveness in the international information space.” – Lavrov stressed, quoted by TASS.
