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France's warning over Russian cyber attacks


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France’s foreign minister has blamed Moscow for a series of election-related cyberattacks, saying that such actions were “unacceptable.”

Speaking to Journal du Dimanche on February 19, Jean-Marc Ayrault said the attacks have targeted pro-European candidate Emmanuel Macron.

He noted that both far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and conservative Francois Fillon have adopted pro-Russian and anti-European positions that Moscow favors.

“Russia is the first to say that noninterference in domestic affairs is a cardinal rule, and I understand that,” Ayrault said. “France won’t accept its choices being dictated to it either.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will participate in a general election in September, has also warned of possible attempts by Moscow to sway the polls.

http://www.rferl.org/a/france-warns-russia-against-election-meddling/28318237.html

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France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault lashed Russia for suspected hacks in the country, calling them “unacceptable.”

“This form of interference in French democratic life is unacceptable and I denounce it,” he said in an interview that appeared Sunday in Journal du Dimanche.

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Aggressive election interference appears to be the latest strategy of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s drive to impose his will across borders.

Officials from the Netherlands fear that their country was the target of a fake information campaign last year to sway a vote on a referendum. A so-called Ukrainian team helped convince the Dutch to reject a European Union trade pact with the country, the New York Times reported. But it turned out the team was actually Russian.

Dutch elections are coming up in March, and officials say hackers linked to the Kremlin have tried repeatedly to break into government web sites. Votes are going to be tallied by hand to avoid possible tampering of voting machines, according to the Times. Now the Germans are also worried about what the Russians might try in their upcoming elections.

Norway also revealed last month that hackers linked to Russia had attacked government ministry sites and the emails of the Labour Party in an operation strikingly similar to what happened in the U.S.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-election-hack_us_58aa6654e4b07602ad55f562

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