“The statements of the Norwegian special services that hackers connected with Russia are behind the cyberattack on parliament in August 2020 is another anti-Russian senior officer with no basis. I don’t want to think that Oslo has joined the paranoid “witch hunt” that is plagued by Washington and Brussels. ” This was stated by Sergey Zheleznyak, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.
According to the politician: “Repeated accusations of Western Russophobes against Russia about interference in the internal affairs of other countries, including some incredible hacker attacks, each time turn out to be assumptions at the level of“ highly likely ”. At the same time, the main goal of such unfounded statements is to throw another portion of anti-Russian propaganda into the information space. ”
“Russia offered partners in Europe and the United States to start full-fledged cooperation in the field of cybersecurity and countering cybercrime. But for each of our proposals, we receive a tacit refusal. A natural question arises – do our opponents really need to find out who is really behind these hacker attacks and whether they were at all?
At the same time, we would recommend our Western critics to be more careful in making sensational statements about the alleged existence in our country of the management of hackers at the state level. This is a direct accusation by the Russian leadership, which requires at least irrefutable evidence and apologies at the highest level, ”the parliamentarian added.