Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States Anatoly Antonov responded to the sanctions imposed by the American side against the Central Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics. TASS reports.
Antonov said that Russia rejects and considers illegal the sanctions imposed by the United States against the research institutes. He also pointed out that Moscow, unlike Washington, “does not conduct offensive operations in the cybersphere,” since such harmful activities “contradict the principles of our foreign policy, national interests and understanding of interstate relations.”
On October 23, the US Treasury Department announced the imposition of sanctions against the Russian Central Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics. The US authorities believe that the research institute is associated with the “dangerous malicious [computer] program Triton”, which was created ostensibly to “damage and manipulate industrial security systems.”
Scientists began talking about unspoken sanctions in connection with the cooling of relations between the United States and Russia in 2014. For example, the US Department of Energy closed Russian scientists access to American laboratories, and in September of the same year, a number of Russian chemists announced that, when sending articles for publication, the main foreign publishing houses immediately send Russian scientists a refusal.
