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Russian Envoy for Information Security 'Optimistic' About Cyber Talks With US

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Russian and the US hold talks on the establishment of a joint cybersecurity group.

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BEIJING (Sputnik) — Russia and the United States continue expert-level talks on the establishment of a joint cybersecurity group, Russia's special presidential representative for international cooperation in information security Andrei Krutskikh said Thursday.

"If we do not want to air grievances with each other, we need to carry on a conversation. What specific form this takes on is secondary. I must say that, naturally, we continue to talk at the expert level with the United States," Krutskikh told reporters.

He reiterated his comments last Thursday where he said Moscow and Washington were exchanging and studying various proposals in the area of cybersecurity.

The envoy is optimistic about the prospects of cybersecurity talks with the United States because of both countries' vulnerability to threats.

"I am personally very optimistic, because we are equally vulnerable [to cyber threats] with the US," Krutskikh told reporters.

He expressed hope that "such business-like conversation regardless of the domestic situation in the US will acquire a very specific format."

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed, according to their respective top diplomats, to establish a new framework to deal with cyber threats during their first meeting earlier in July.

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