Internet Down For Hours In One Of Russia's Largest Outages

Russia's internet was hit by a huge outage and theories are swirling over why

It was unclear if hackers had targeted Russia (Picture: AP/Getty) Weapons plants targeted by kamikaze drones, rebellions in an oil-producing region and power outages in -30°C temperatures – Russia seems to be ruled by chaos just weeks before the presidential elections. Apart from pushing with his war in Ukraine and keeping close relationships with allies North Korea and China, Vladimir Putin is now faced with the largest Internet meltdown ever. …

Russia suffers large-scale internet outages

Russia experienced one of its largest internet outages, with many sites and applications using the Russian .ru domain being unavailable for hours on the evening of Jan. 30.Hundreds of websites and services were unaccessible, including the Yandex search engine, Sberbank, the VKontakte social media platform, as well as state services.People all over the country were impacted by the outages. According to the state-controlled Russian news agency RBC…

Russisches Internet war teilweise nicht mehr erreichbar

Experten führen Ausfälle auf staatliche Eingriffe zurück. Seiten mit der Domäne .ru hatten Probleme

On Tuesday evening, an Internet outage occurred in Russia - according to experts, perhaps the biggest in recent history.

Russia just had its biggest internet outage, and no one knows why

Internet users across the country and abroad were unable to access sites with the .ru domain for hours on Tuesday evening.