Suspected of aiding Russian spy "Kaspersky Lab" goes to Washington and opens offices in other cities in the US and Canada, trying to make a good face in a bad game - according to Fortune.

The problem is that government agencies, in fact, can not use the services of the "Laboratory". All this is because of fear of what their system once again penetrate hackers or malicious software.

For example, recently there have been reports stating that there are close links between Kaspersky and Russian intelligence. A few weeks ago, the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology asked 22 government agencies to provide documents on their relationship with the "Laboratory".

Suspicions that fell on Kaspersky, even led to the fact that the US electronics network Best Buy stopped replenishing the stocks of antivirus software of this company.

Thus, the company loses some of its largest customers. However, Kaspersky said that he plans to open three new offices in North America next year - in Chicago, Toronto and Los Angeles - "as part of his continued commitment to the market". But the sale of software for the US government was not such a big prerogative, the company said..

Interestingly, in Russia not so long ago, the head of the department for investigating computer incidents of Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov. He was suspected of being a state treason. In response, Ruslan, while in custody, managed to publish an open letter in which he said that Russian authorities are trying to reach agreement with hackers and other cyber-criminals. "The most terrible scenario is to give cybercriminals immunity from retaliation for stealing money in other countries in exchange for intelligence," he wrote..