Russia has proposed to adopt a convention on Internet security at the International conference on cyberspace in London.
This is the first global forum of its kind. It gathered more than 700 delegates from 60 countries around the world.
The forum has been organized under the auspices of the British Foreign Office. Its goal is to bridge the differences that exist between governments, businesses and civil societies on the issues of cyberspace. At the same time participants do not intend to introduce any binding rules.
The Russian delegation is led by Minister of Communications Igor Shegolev. A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Krutitskikh will make a speech at a session behind closed doors, while the Russian antivirus software mogul and CEO of Kaspersky Lab Evgeny Kaspersky will participate in an open discussion on cyber crime.
President Medvedev has repeatedly urged the global community to take joint steps to counteract cyber threats. In September, Russia published two proposals of public conduct in cyber space. The first proposal supports the censorship of the information that encourages terrorism, separatism, extremism and undermines stability in other countries. The second stipulates the norms to regulate the Internet in terms of the politico-military, criminal and terrorist threats. This country believes that this convention should be adopted by the UN, Ekaterina Aksenova, an Internet expert told the Voice of Russia.
"The convention compares the use of information technologies for hostile actions and aggression on the web to military actions. It urges other nations to stop intruding in other countries’ cyberspace, which includes the attempts to undermine the political, economic and social systems of one state by another."
The control over cyberspace is one of the vital modern-day problems. During the Arab spring, rebels coordinated their activities using Twitter and Facebook. However this kind of Internet use worries some countries leaving others unconcerned.
From the US point of view, the main sources of cyber crime are China and Russia. Yet, according to experts, hacker attacks from the US are as frequent as they are from the former two countries. Despite this, the US (along with the UK) as usual wants to impose their own interests. Here is an opinion from Andrey Maslovich, an expert on competitive intelligence.
"In cyberspace the US has outdone both Russia and China twisting propaganda tools which break the rules of the game. For instance, Americans post pictures from Bahrain depicting unrest in Syria. This is a tough propaganda war aimed at gaining hold of no-man’s land."
Russia’s Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko reminded the audience about this country’s stance on the problem. He said that hostile use of information and communications technologies is posing the most serious threat to world security. He admitted that the global powers still are still unable to come up with any international tools to ensure cyber security. However, he is hopeful that the London conference would signify at least a small step in this direction.
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