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Mr Makei, Mr Rapota, colleagues, friends, I would like to thank our Belarusian hosts for traditional hospitality and excellent organisation of our meeting. Our annual meetings allow us to coordinate our positions on important issues on the international agenda in line with the Programme for Coordinated Foreign Policy…

The report, International Security in Cyberspace - New Models for Reducing Risk, released by the US State Department on October 20 has come to our attention. With regard to cyberspace, this document added little to the unfounded accusations against Russia that we constantly hear from across the ocean.…

One of today’s major strategic challenges is the risk of a large-scale confrontation in the digital field. A special responsibility for its prevention lies on the key players in the field of ensuring international information security (IIS). In this regard, we would like to once again address the…

The Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets since winning a secret victory in 2018 when President Trump signed what amounts to a sweeping authorization for such activities, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter.…

Due to the recent violation by the delegations of Estonia, UK and US of the established practice that all Security Council Members participate in Arria-Formula meetings, regardless of whether they approve or disapprove its topic, the Permanent Mission did not participate in this event as it undermines established…

The initial “pre-draft” of the report of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security, circulated by the Chair Mr.J.Lauber, is, according to our evaluation, negotiable. There is an attempt to preserve relative balance…

On April 7, at 12:00, the Valdai Club hosted an online discussion, titled “Information Security and the Digitalisation Process: Between Development and Fears”. Speakers: Andrei Krutskikh, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security, Director of the Department…

Dear colleagues! The events taking place in more than 100 countries as a reaction to the spread of coronavirus, as well as the doubts of some of the Russian and international colleagues about the possibility of their participation in the annual 14th Forum in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scheduled for April…

Andrey Krutskikh has been appointed Director of the Department of International Information Security by an order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Born in 1951 1973: Graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fluent in English and Spanish. Has…