14 DAY TRIAL // Similar to other countries, Russia is becoming more and more concerned with cyber threats. As a result, it has decided to create a new cyber warfare branch in the Russian Armed Forces, a military research and development official has revealed.
According to RIA Novosti, the new branch comes after Russia set up the Foundation for Advanced Military Research – the Russian equivalent of the United State’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – back in October 2012.
The head of the Foundation for Advanced Military Research, Andrei Grigoryev, says the agency, which has a budget of $70 million (€52.5 million) for 2013, focuses on three main areas: future soldiers, cyber warfare and futuristic weaponry.
As far as the new cyber warfare branch is concerned, Grigoryev says “the decision to create a cyber-security command and a new branch of the armed forces has already been made.”