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https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1870609/
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. The Russian side explains the need for an alternative to the Budapest Convention by the fact that, firstly, the approaches to the definition, prevention ...
... number of Internet users, as well as the development of IT businesses and the platform economy, the country
is among the leaders
in the European region, which was showcased by the effectiveness of Russian platform companies in times of the pandemic. Russian information security companies have become leaders in global markets,
Kaspersky
being a prime example.
Russia has traditionally placed special emphasis on international and political framing of the principle of state sovereignty in the ICT environment....
... strategic rivals in information and real geopolitics. The
U.S. National Security Strategy
of October 2022 considers deterring Russia and China, including in cyberspace, as one of the national security priorities.
The priority nature of international information security for Russia is enshrined in a number of strategic planning documents, such as the
Fundamentals of Russia’s National Policy in International Information Security 2021
,
National Security Strategy 2021
, and others. According to these documents, Russia pursues ...
... giants around the world have marked global long-term trends. The authors of this working paper take a closer look at recent key changes in Big Tech regulation both at the international level and in individual jurisdictions of the EU, USA, China and Russia, examining the different ways in which governments have tried to strike a regulatory balance between freedom and security, as well as between digital ecosystem development and healthy competition. This paper also includes an analysis of Big Tech’s ...
... rivalry instead of dialogue between the U.S. and Russia. Even symbolic cooperation in the UN is a thing of the past, and, as was already the case in 2018-2020, this October the General Assembly will discuss not one general, but two competing documents on information security. Russia
entered
the next draft annual resolution without American assistance, but with the support of a dozen of friendly countries. And the U.S. joined the French-Egyptian
initiative
to create a UN Program of Action to Promote Responsible Behavior of ...
... international information security is a new milestone on the path towards establishing an international regime for information security
The first committee of the 76
th
session of the UN General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution on international information security sponsored by Russia and the United States by consensus. The document has a record number of co-sponsors, with 107 countries putting their name to the document, although it is Russia and the United States that promote the document as its
main sponsors
. While the ...
... voting on the amendments to the Russian constitution came from the United States, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and a number of CIS states.
Daniel Stauffacher:
Time to Create a Single Negotiating Cyber Forum under the UN General Assembly First Committee
Russia believes that information security issues must be handled jointly and that unilateral actions that could have dangerous implications should be avoided. However, the U.S.–Russia dialogue on the subject has been frozen over the last five years. When the Trump administration ...
... is especially disappointing. Still, we should recognize that the recent agreement through negotiations of the UN Open Ended Working Group is a positive step forward, in spite of the global trend towards escalating tensions, especially those between Russia, China and the U.S.
We have two negotiating platforms, the GGE and the OEWG. What do you think about such co-existence?
We appreciate the history and the genesis of these two parallel processes, however, I should say it is now time that we combined ...
... while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs lauded the significance of the moment in its
official commentary
.
To better understand why the adoption of the report has exactly seen such a success, we need to take a trip into the recent past. The issue of information security was included in the UN agenda in 1998, after Russia presented its draft resolution “Achievements in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security” to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Negotiations have been ongoing since 2004 ...
The seminar was devoted to the analysis of challenges to the information spaces of Russia and the UK, the rules of conduct in the information space, and media codes in Russia and the UK, the development of social networks and their influence, the creation, spread and effects of fake news in both countries
On January 20, 2020, in Moscow,...
