“I think it's another of those ones where we've forgotten just how busy the Russian intelligence services always were during Soviet times doing precisely this, trying to steal technological secrets from the West because they were unable to develop things themselves,” Giles added. Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia Programme, told The Record he would be “startled, alarmed and dismayed” if Western companies “were not already fully on alert” for such espionage. One way or another, they have always tried to contain us,” he added. “In that regard, we all know well that the Soviet Union, and even before it, the country always lived under the conditions of such sanctions. This effort is always acute, particularly now amidst attempts to apply sanctions pressure on Russia,” Putin said in June
“As always, one priority area of the SVR’s work is its support of the industrial and technological development of our country the strengthening of our defense potential.
These headwinds were referenced in a speech by Putin to the SVR on June 30 when he stressed the role of the spy agency in mitigating sanctions, while avoiding any direct reference to the invasion of Ukraine. It lists a number of acute problems facing Russia’s domestic technology industry, including its dependence on foreign intellectual property its lack of production capacity and Russia being unattractive to investors. The admission about the state of Russia’s microelectronics industry is contained in a new strategic policy document from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, reported Tuesday by Kommersant. President Vladimir Putin has suggested in recent months that the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) should support technological development as the country deals with mounting sanctions. Russia acknowledged this week that parts of its technology industry are dependent on foreign knowledge and lagging competitors by more than a decade, raising concerns that the country’s cyber spies will be used for industrial espionage.Įxperts told The Record that Western companies should be on “full alert” for attacks from Moscow’s intelligence services.
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