International policy of Russia
Main article: International policy of Russia
Information Technology at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Main article: Information technologies in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
History
2023: Polish prosecutors seize money from Russian embassy accounts
The Polish prosecutor's office seized money from the accounts of the Russian Embassy, said Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev on April 26, 2023.
This is a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention, which introduced immunity on money in the accounts of embassies of countries.
Earlier, embassy accounts were frozen, allegedly on suspicion of their possible use "for the purpose of money laundering or terrorism."
Diplomats received a notification from the prosecutor's office that funds from the embassy and trade representative accounts at Santander Bank were transferred to the prosecutor's accounts. Following this, Santander reported that it had ceased cooperation with the embassy and closed accounts. We are talking about "significant funds" that were in accounts in both dollars and Polish zlotys.
2022: Plan to open new consulates
Russia plans to open consulates in the Maldives, Bali, as well as in Grodno, Aktau and Samarkand, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov in November 2022. The department wants to strengthen the consular presence of the Russian Federation in regions with large Russian diasporas, as well as popular with tourists.
2021: Russian Foreign Ministry confirms cyber attack on ministry employees
On January 18, 2022, it became known about cyber attacks on employees of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the American information security companies Cluster25 (part of DuskRis) and Black Lotus Labs (part of Lumen Technologies), the North Korean hacker group Konni is allegedly behind these attacks.
According to Kommersant, a phishing campaign against Foreign Ministry employees began in October 2021. They were sent archives with documents in which they were asked to report on the status of vaccination, or links to the download of a fake "Program for registering vaccinated in the federal register." As a result, the account of one of the employees of the ministry was compromised. On December 20, 2021, New Year's congratulations on the malicious file were sent from there.
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the cyber attacks, but assured that they did not bring the desired results to the attackers.
 | The mentioned attack did take place, but was timely discovered and localized by the staff means of active protection of the ministry's information infrastructure and did not receive further spread. Thus, the phishing attack carried out by cybercriminals was repelled and did not have a destructive effect on the information infrastructure facilities of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the ministry said. |  |
The group Konnie (APT37) has been known since 2017. In her attacks, she used, in particular, documents related to relations between Russia and the DPRK, taking texts from public sources, said Denis Kuvshinov, head of the threat research department at Positive Technologies. Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity expert Denis Legezo, in turn, said that Konnie could send a damaged pdf file: the recipient could not open it, and attackers under the guise of a reader sent him an infected program.[1]
2019: Establishment of the Department of International Information Security
On December 30, 2019, it became known that a special department would be created at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to develop and implement a state policy in the field of international information security (IIB). As reported on the Foreign Ministry's Facebook page, the corresponding decree has already been signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The duties of the 42nd department will include the fight against the use of information technologies for military-political, terrorist and other criminal purposes, as well as the supervision of the activities of international organizations and forums in the field of the IIB.
The Department will also propose ways to improve the regulatory framework for cooperation with other countries, international organizations and competent non-governmental organizations in the field of IIB. In particular, he will develop and coordinate international agreements in this area.
The unit will also participate in the development and coordination of national measures for information security in the field of international cooperation and international relations[2].
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1950: Construction of a high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square
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