MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. The United States has cyber bases abroad, including one in Hamburg, where hundreds of hackers work outside German jurisdiction, the Russian Security Council’s deputy secretary, Oleg Khramov, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview.

"The United States has cyber bases abroad. For instance, the National Security Agency’s office in Hamburg, where hundreds of professional hackers keep toiling for the interests of the United States. Or NATO’s cyberoperations centers in the Baltic countries," Khramov said.

About the US authorities’ claims to the effect Russia was allegedly plotting cyberattacks against the United States in retaliation for sanctions Khramov said that in contrast to the US Russia had no such cyber centers while the Americans created their cyber forces a long time ago. There are voluminous doctrinal documents on this score. The cyber command keeps planning operations and trying to raise allies’ support. In the meantime, in Russia there are no such doctrinal documents, he stressed.

Khramov believes that Washington needs arguments to be used on the domestic scene, a sort of "smoke screen" to excuse the vulnerability of the US in the IT sphere.

"Many years of heavy reliance on domination in the Internet has produced a situation where, as experts say, any hacker with a school student’s knowledge of the IT sphere is capable of causing harm to America’s smart households. Hence the hurried decisions to force the leading IT companies make multi-billion investment into cyber protection, specialists training and systems of measures to protect critical infrastructures," he believes.

Khramov stressed that this is the price to be paid for "arrogance, excessive self-confidence and rejection of proposals from Russia, the United States and other soberly-minded countries to introduce legal acts mandatory for the entire world community."

"We will be waiting patiently for the US to cope with its hegemonistic ambitions, display common sense and get back to the negotiating table for productive bilateral talks. For the time being the US remains not trustworthy," he concluded.