US 'Orchestrated' Russian Spies Scandal, Says Kaspersky Founder (theguardian.com)

Alex Hern, writing for The Guardian: Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive and co-founder of the embattled Russian cybersecurity firm that bears his name, believes his company is at the centre of a "designed and orchestrated attack" to destroy its reputation. Over a short period in the summer of 2017, Kaspersky Labs was the subject of multiple media reports alleging that the company had helped Russian intelligence agencies spy on the US, a number of FBI raids on staff members, and a nationwide ban on the use of its software by federal government agencies. "This media attack and government attack from the United States, it was designed and orchestrated," Mr Kaspersky said at a press conference in London. "Because at the same time, there was government, there was FBI, there was media attack. That is expensive ... I mean all kinds of resources: political influence, money, lobbyists, the media etc." When asked directly whether he had ever been asked to help Russian intelligence agencies spy on the US, Kaspersky vehemently denied any such conversations had ever happened saying: "They have never asked us to spy on people. Never." "If the Russian government comes to me and asks me to do anything wrong, I will move the business out of Russia," he added. "We never helped the espionage agencies, the Russians or any other nation."

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Re:We need pretext to split the net.

[skam240]

Ukraine has been an country independent of Russia for around a hundred years now (even when part of the Eastern Block it still had its own government and national identity. The Soviets certainly acknowledged Ukraine as a seperate nation when they gave them Crimea in 1954). Catalonia, on the other hand, has been part of Spain for over half a millennium.

Also, Russia's invasion of Ukraine was illegal under international law. On the other hand, Catalonia's bid for independence was illegal as the Spanish constitution (much like the US') does not allow for such a thing.

Sure, you can draw some superficial parallels between the two but the second you start to really look at the circumstances of both situations Russia looks like far more of a bad guy than Spain. Just look at the death counts even. While the violence in what was happening in Spain for a bit was certainly disturbing, the death count in Ukraine is in the tens of thousands and continues to mount.

Re:Credibility Nada.

[guacamole]

Russia did not invade Georgia 2008 but reliated against Georgia invading South Ossetia. Russian peacekeepers were already legally in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia since 1992 as per the Sochi cease fire Agreement that was signed in 1992 by the Georgian president, parliament, and the separatists. On August 8th of 2008, Georgian military launched a surprise attack on the separatists in South Ossetia, breaking the agreement and also killing a bunch of civilians and even Russian peacekeepers in their sleep. Russia's military responded by crossing the border into South Ossetia, and kicking the Georgians out of there, and Russians were pretty much legally entitled to do this based on previous international agreements.

Re:Credibility Nada.

[skam240]

"Putin has invaded both Georgia"

                "After George invaded South Ossetia."

                                            After Russia occupied South Ossetia (or in other words, part of Georgia) under the guise of the OSCE

Furthermore you demand evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine but provide none for the Western over throw of the Ukraine government.

So let's talk Russia in Ukraine. First off Crimea is part of Ukraine, everyone in the world recognizes this aside from Russia who changed their mind just recently. There is plenty of Russian military in Crimea. As for the rest of Ukraine how about this for a resource https://www.martenscentre.eu/p...
If we see Russians and their military equipment in Ukraine then that pretty much makes for Russian military involvement in Ukraine.

Now please, lay out your case for the West orchestrating the over turning of Ukraines government. I enjoy the idea of you trying to do this in context of the fact that the replacement government has since been democratically elected since the revolution. Seems like a government formed in the context of a foriegn led cou wouldn't be very popular.