ANALYSIS OF ALLEGED CYBER ATTACKS FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Russian Federation (RF) increases its activity in the field, called cyber space, day by day. The main reason why RF improves its efficiency in cyberspace is that it demands to be one of the most important cyber powers in the international system and needs to have power to use it as a means of pressure and sanction at the point of solving its foreign policy problems. Within this target, RF has made considerable efforts in the 2000s in order to reach the existing cyber attack capacity. As a result of the strategy it pursues, RF, which has increased its cyber attack power in a short period of time, is now one of the most important actors that dominate cyber space. In this context, our article examines how RF uses its cyber attack capacity at the point of solving its foreign policy problems by analyzing on the alleged RF attacks on Estonia in 2007, Georgia and Lithuania in 2008, Kyrgyzstan in 2009 and Ukraine in 2014.