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Russia Responds To Formal Cyberattack Accusations, Calls Them “Unprecedented Anti-Russian Hysteria”
Russia Responds To Formal Cyberattack Accusations, Calls Them “Unprecedented Anti-Russian Hysteria”
Following the first official accusation lobbed at Russia on Friday by the Department of Homeland Security and Director of National Intelligence on Election Security, in which US intelligence services formally stated they were “confident” that the Russian government “directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations”, today Russia responded to this latest diplomatic escalation by saying that U.S. accusations that Russia was responsible for cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations lack any proof and are an attempt by Washington to fan “unprecedented anti-Russian hysteria”, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said.
After late on Friday the Kremlin called the U.S. allegations “nonsense”, on Saturday Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, cited by Reuters, said on the ministry’s website that “this whipping up of emotions regarding ‘Russian hackers’ is used in the U.S. election campaign, and the current U.S. administration, taking part in this fight, is not averse to using dirty tricks.”
“There is no proof whatsoever for such grave accusations,” Ryabkov said. “(They are) …fabricated by those who are now serving an obvious political order in Washington, continuing to whip up unprecedented anti-Russian hysteria.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
Ryabkov reiterated an offer to Washington, first made last year, to hold consultations on fighting cyber crime together, but he also criticized John Kerry after the U.S. Secretary of State said late on Friday that Russian and Syrian actions in the Syrian civil war, including bombings of hospitals, “beg for” a war crimes investigation.
Such remarks are unacceptable and Moscow is disappointed to hear “new typically U.S. claims for being a global judge”, Ryabkov said in comments to Interfax news agency published on Saturday.
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The Road To War With Russia
The Road To War With Russia
For several weeks now the anti-Russian stance in the US press has quieted down. Presumably because the political leadership has moved its attention on to other things, and the media flock has followed suit.
Have you read much about Ukraine and Russia recently?
I thought not, despite the fact that there’s plenty of serious action — both there as well as related activity in the US — going on that deserves our careful attention.
As I recently wrote, the plunging oil price is a potential catalyst for stock market turmoil and sovereign instability. Venezuela is already circling the drain, and numerous other oil exporters are in deep trouble as they foolishly expanded their national budgets and social programs to match the price of oil; something that is easy to do on the way up and devilishly tricky on the way down.
But consider the impact on Russia. From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of oil are the fault of the US, either directly or indirectly. Whether that is fair or not is irrelevant; that’s the view of the Russians right now. So no surprise, it doesn’t dispose them towards much in the way of good-will towards the West generally, and the US specifically.
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US destroying foundation of cooperation: Moscow slams ‘anti-Russian’ Ukraine bill — RT News
US destroying foundation of cooperation: Moscow slams ‘anti-Russian’ Ukraine bill — RT News.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has decried the US Senate-backed Ukrainian support bill as “anti-Russian” in a statement released on Friday evening. It says that Washington is seeking to “destroy cooperation” between the two nations.
The bill, titled,“An act to support freedom in Ukraine in 2014”, would provide Kiev with weapons, millions of dollars in military assistance, and other forms of aid, in addition to imposing further sanctions on the Russian defense sector.
Deeply critical of the move, the Foreign Ministry has accused Washington of refusing “to abandon outdated phobias about Russia” and wanting to “turn back time.”
The Ministry criticized the bill as overtly confrontational, saying that “Washington has, once again, levelled baseless accusations against Russia and threatened us with new sanctions.”
The US Senate voted unanimously in favor of the bill on Thursday. Senator and co-author of the bill, Bob Corker, said that unanimous Senate support for the bill shows “a firm commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty and to making sure Putin pays for his assault on freedom and security in Europe.”
The Foreign Ministry called on members of Congress “to abandon their illusions on the efficacy of sanctions in their heated campaign against Russia.”
“We will not submit to blackmail. We will not cede our national interests. And we will not tolerate interference in our internal affairs,” the statement reads.
Ukrainian lawmakers, who had been pressing the West for military aid for months, welcomed the bill, calling it a “historic decision.”
