MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Russia does not want to inflict damage on other countries in the sphere of cyber security and proposed to the United States to discuss this issue.
"When I recently discussed this issue with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, I suggested to him that we hold some kind of consultations. Because we, too, don't want our citizens to be involved in cybercrime. This could turn against the Russian Federation. We don't want to inflict any damage on other countries either," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Voskresnoye Vremya (Sunday Time), a news analysis program on the Channel One television.
He was commenting on arrests of Russian citizens in third countries with their subsequent extradition to the U.S., calling such arrests "kidnappings."
"But 99% of the reasons that the Americans eventually, belatedly, set out to us, to explain this sort of kidnappings, consist in our citizens being suspected of cybercrimes," Lavrov said.