
Boris Vasiliev announced the use of satellite Internet to organize protests
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The II Global Digital Forum takes place in Moscow from October 8 to 10. The discussion was devoted to satellite communication systems.
More than ten countries of the world have suffered from interference in their affairs using Starlink satellite Internet systems, said Boris Vasiliev, head of the department in the department of international information security of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On Saturday, he participated in the discussion “Non-GSO communication systems: from national ambitions to regional cooperation” as part of the II Global Digital Forum. The diplomat noted that, in particular, in Iran and Venezuela, the use of Starlink to organize protests was discovered. Other countries have encountered a similar problem.
“There are already more than ten of these countries. Unfortunately, not all of them are ready to name themselves, but in a closed dialogue they share with us that they are also becoming victims of this situation. Knowing the full extent of the situation, I can say that the scale of the problem is enormous,” Vasiliev emphasized.

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