Moscow-Sana
The head of the Central Election Commission in Russia, Ella Pamfilova, announced that the resources of the commission are being subjected to "unprecedented" cyber attacks from abroad, but the system is successfully responding to them.
In exclusive statements to Russia Today, Pamfilova described the electronic attacks as "very dangerous" and continue without interruption, especially in the Russian capital, Moscow, where they target the commission's website, stressing that these unprecedented attacks are clear evidence of the correctness of the method of organizing election monitoring by cameras after successfully protecting the automated government system. The elections are protected from any intrusions, which makes them safe from cyber attacks that aim to disrupt them.
Pamfilova noted the great interest in the activities of the Central Election Commission from foreign experts, noting that representatives of about 60 countries are accompanying the Russian elections in their capacity as international observers, and that the special interest of foreign experts and ambassadors is raised by the electronic voting system adopted in Moscow and a number of Russian regions in the conditions of the Corona pandemic. .
And the Russian Central Election Commission announced yesterday that three cyber-attacks from abroad targeted its website on the first day of polling on the ongoing parliamentary elections in the country, while the head of the Commission for Inquiry into Incidents of Foreign Interference in the Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the State Duma, Vasily Piskarev, confirmed the defamation of American non-governmental organizations. Reputation of the results of legislative elections in Russia.
By a decision of the aforementioned committee, elections to the State Duma in Russia took place between the 17th and 19th of this month, in conjunction with the regional and local elections. This year, online voting took place in Moscow and 6 other provinces.
