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Is there something new in Russian information warfare? Over the last couples of years we have seen the significant development in warfare Russian Public relationships. Information activity is a case of a conflict. Now, more recently, we see that Russian leaders do informational operations on the own without the need of armed intervention at all.

Can we talk about a militarization of information in Russia? In the literal sense we can talk about it, because Russia has set up that is called information operation stereotype. More broadly, we talk about weaponazation. Information is a tool for Russia to achieve affect against other countries.

How can the West counter Russia’s cyber and psychological operations? The first problem is to protect westernization against Russian affair. It is important to recognize the problem, by which is meant to just notice that Russia is conducting information campaign, but also to measure the effect. It is important to understand if Russian information campaign has effect on Western politics. It is important to focus on specific areas.

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Russia is promoting a convention on combating cybercrime. This convention has the aim to exclude the use of IT technologies for military purposes. This is a universal criminal law convention on countering crime in cyberspace.

This convention presupposes rules that would exclude the use of information and communication technologies for military purposes, would not allow them to be used to interfere in internal affairs. They are expected to discourage terrorists.

It is important to note that Moscow is ready to cooperate with the United States in the fight against cybercrime. Moscow would like to resume contacts both through the special representatives of the US administration and the Russian president, and through the relevant departments.