The question of a CNN reporter who upset Russian President Vladimir Putin

After his meeting with US President Joe Biden in Geneva, which lasted about four hours, the Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first to give a press conference, where he was confronted with difficult questions from a journalist from the American network CNN.

British journalist Matthew Chance he began his investigation by trying to find out what was the tone of Putin’s conversation with Biden, but his questions quickly became much sharper. “Have you made a commitment to stop carrying out cyber attacks against the United States? Did you promise to stop threatening the security of Ukraine? Did you promise to stop suppressing opposition in Russia? “asked the main correspondent of the information network.

Putin began his response by noting that the dialogue with Biden was free from hostilities and what was it “very constructive”. And then, although he said that Russia and the United States were going to “initiate consultations” on cybersecurity because it is “extremely important”, the leader of the Kremlin diverted the focus from the issue and He claimed that the United States and its allies have committed more acts of cyberwarfare than the Russians.

“The US administration, I don’t want to say which agency it is, but US sources say that Most cyberattacks in the world take place, in fact, in the cyberspace of the United States. The second place is Canada and the third the United Kingdom. In this list of countries, the most vulnerable cyberspace is not ours“Putin affirmed without giving answers on the other questions posed by Chance.

This statement by the Russian president on cybersecurity was investigated soon after by the team of made–verification (verification of information) of the agency AP, What concluded that Putin had made an unfounded claim. “This account defies the record. Putin did not identify the source of the list he cited. But U.S. officials and security investigators are aware of Russia’s digital crimes. While the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom engage in cyber espionage, the most damaging cyber attacks on record come from Russian state-backed hackers or Russian-speaking ransomware that operate with impunity in Russia and the allied nations, ”says the report by PA.

In addition, the “Fact-check” of AP, signed by journalists Frank Bajak and Daria Litvinova, pointed out another moment of the press conference. When Putin accused jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny of illegally leaving Russia for treatment, PA He warned that he had said so “omitting the fact that he had been taken out of the country in a coma”.

And finally, the survey on PA pointed out that Putin twisted the circumstances of the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 by trying to equate this attack with the threats his government faces from the political opposition in Russia.

With AP information

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