Putin Convenes Top Russian Officials to Discuss Cybersecurity
The Kremlin said the meeting was not connected with Ukrainian drone strikes in the past week on four Russian data centers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin convened a top-level meeting on cybersecurity on Wednesday, according to the Kremlin. The discussion aimed to address the growing importance of cybersecurity, though the meeting was not directly linked to a recent series of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified.
The meeting saw participation from government ministers, high-ranking security officials, as well as the heads of Sberbank and the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina. Peskov emphasized that the meeting was a precautionary measure against potential threats posed by artificial intelligence technologies and was not specifically related to the isolated attacks.
The Kremlin also addressed the issue of self-censorship in Russia, denouncing recent attempts by authorities to silence independent journalism through labeling organizations as "undesirable" and criminalizing their work. The Moscow Times, a Russian newspaper, remains committed to providing unbiased and accurate reporting despite facing such censorship measures.
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