US EditionInternet Outages Disrupt Daily Life in Russia, Fueling Fears of a Digital Crackdown
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In Moscow, residents have been struggling with widespread mobile internet outages for nearly three weeks. There are fears that Russia will plunge into a digital blackout...
This week, Medusa asked readers from Russia how they lived without the Internet. We have received hundreds of answers from a few dozen cities across the country, from which an entire book could be collected. Thank you. These answers only confirm how much changed and complicated life has been because of blockages and outages. Some of the readers have already thought about going to protest, others about leaving the country. We have published the m…
Russian activist Ksenia Ashrafullia warns that in recent weeks Kremlin has intensified Internet access restrictions across the country: “No one would imagine that even the richest cities would be without Internet. People have returned to paper.”
For weeks, residents of the Russian capital Moscow have had to almost completely dispense with Internet connections via mobile communications. Central services such as navigation, delivery apps or messenger no longer work for millions of people. (Read more)
Internet outages disrupt daily life in Russia, fueling fears of a digital crackdown
Replying to a friend’s message, ordering a pizza or hailing a ride on your handheld device may seem like simple tasks in a fully wired 21st-century city like Moscow. But residents of the Russian capital are finding that their smartphones have been dumbed down amid an unprecedented shutdown of the mobile internet.
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