27 June 2010

By Markaz Kavkaz

Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called industrial espionage one of the main problems of the German economy, saying that Russia and China are the leaders in it.  

Moscow offended and demands explanations. "We would expect to receive explanations from our partners through diplomatic channels", Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said in this regard.  

Meanwhile, Minister Thomas de Maiziere, presented his report on the protection of the constitution of Germany for 2009. According to him, German companies are still underestimating the risk that comes from industrial espionage from Russia and China, undertaken by state authorities or with their support, Deutsche Welle reports.  

It is noteworthy that a few days in the Czech Republic a report of the security information service of the country for 2009 has been made public. It also spoke of "intense and aggressive" espionage of Russia in the field of science and technology. In Czech Republic the activity of Russian intelligence officers has been linked to plans of former US president George W. Bush to place ABM on its territory.  

Four Russian diplomats were expelled from Czech Republic last year, as they were allegedly showing interest in the classified information on placing a US radar. At the same time such actions caused extremely negative reaction in Russian ministry of foreign affairs. "This is yet another provocation", said then foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.  

Russian spies are infiltrating not only into German companies, but also in the higher echelons of power.  The current report is not much different from the results collected in 2008. Then the German press relished various facts of increasing espionage activity of Russian on the territory of Germany, explaining that secret information from German industry is simply priceless for economically backward country like Russia.  

According to the intelligence of Germany, spies from Russia are primarily interested in information about alternative and renewable energy sources and measures to improve their effectiveness. In addition, the energy interests of Europe, the plans to diversify energy supplies and the economic situation of Germany as a whole, are falling into the scope of their attention.  

Along with it, German companies are increasingly becoming targets of cyber attacks from Russia, as, indeed, from China. A number of countries in the Far and Middle East and North Africa are engaged in such activity. Particular interest for hackers are companies that work with the latest technologies.  

The 2010 is also, apparently, would not be an exception in a series of constant claims of German leadership concerning the Russian espionage, and not just industrial. Thus, in March this year two Germans suspected of transferring data to Russian were detected in the office of prime minister of Brandenburg. No formal charges had been brought against them. However, access to classified information was blocked to one of them.

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