Armenia plus Kaspersky is another springboard for information war: Azerbaijani Human Rights Institute official

Day.Az: A memorandum “Safe Armenia” on mutual aid was signed in Yerevan several days ago with the participation of Russia's famous programmer and an expert on anti-virus protection Yevgeni Kaspersky. According to media reports, the document is of strategic nature and involves the development of joint long-term projects. How would you comment on this arrangement?

Araz Qurbanov: I think this memorandum except for educational and training component has a strategic nature, which, among other things, involves not very clean intention of Armenia. This interest of Armenia to the Kaspersky Lab is caused not only the security of national computer network. This suggests that Armenia, by signing this document with a Russian systems producer, will ensure not only its safety, but also be able to attack the sites it dislikes.  

Naturally, any laboratory that deals with anti-virus programs is very good at virus program. The essence of this memorandum gives reason to expect a massive crackdown by Armenia, unfortunately, with the participation of Russia's official organizations, on undesirable for it  computer networks of Azerbaijan and other countries. That is the Armenia-Russia initiative aims not only to protect Armenia, but also strengthen the base for another, more intensive computer information attack.

Q: What is the reason for this move by Armenia?

A: At the very beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, we talked about the information blockade. However, if you become better acquainted with the essence of the blockade and our actions, we can say that it was not a blockade. Simply by saying this we just hid our lack of action in the information war. But since then much has changed, our actions have become much more active, strong and effective, our position in this area has strengthened. Naturally, Armenians, witnessing the current developments, believe the only way out of the situation is to block unwanted information disseminated by Azerbaijan, which opens the eyes of world public to the realities of our region. I believe this memorandum serves this purpose.

Q: What Azerbaijan should do in this situation?

A: Azerbaijan should further toughen security measures on this matter, to protect itself against this threat and neutralize all possible risks. As doctors say, "each virus has its own anti-virus.”

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