HACKERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ATTACKED RUSSIAN PRESIDENT'S INTERNET SITE








MOSCOW, March 7. /RIA Novosti correspondent Olga Semyonova/. About 50 per cent of the 30 hacker attacks on the web site of Russian President Vladimir Putin last Tuesday during his Internet conference came from abroad, RIA Novosti was told at Russia's Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information /FAPSI/. 


	Measures taken by the agency's specialists, its spokesman said, prevented the hackers from breaking into the network. 


	The spokesman recalled that such attempts to torpedo Internet news conferences of Russian leaders have been taken before. During a similar news conference by Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin, about 20 hackers' attacks were neutralised.