RuNet Collapses Third Time In Three Weeks

After Roskomnadzor's “exercises”.

On the morning of January 24, a large-scale failure occurred in the work of mobile operators and Internet services in Russia. This follows from the data of Sboy.rf, Downradar and Downdetector, which monitor the operability of services and sites in the country, writes The Moscow Times.

Russian users are complaining en masse about problems with mobile operators. There is no Internet for subscribers of MTS, Beeline, Megafon, T2 and Yota. The provider's supplier in the country, Rostelecom, is also working with interruptions. In addition, many users experienced problems accessing Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, Steam and Twitch. VTB and T-Bank applications do not open.

Megafon announced difficult access “to foreign Internet resources”, noting that this happens “for reasons beyond our control”. VimpelCom assured that the network is operating normally, but there are difficulties with access to Telegram. T2 reported that they are not fixing the problems with the availability of mobile services. “Our networks are operating normally, there have been no customer complaints about the technical service,” the company noted. MTS declined to comment. Roskomnadzor said that the failure was recorded and promptly fixed on Megafon's infrastructure, and other operators have not recorded problems.

This is the third major failure in the Russian Internet segment in the last three weeks. On January 6, access to online games, streaming services, banking applications and social networks was lost in Russia. Then, Roskomnadzor named an accident on the backbone network of one of the telecom operators as the cause of the problems. Another failure occurred on January 14. It affected mobile operators, Telegram, TikTok, Google, Steam and Twitch. The supervisory agency explained the incident as a “short-term disruption in connectivity”. A source of Vedomosti in one of the operators said that the failure was caused by technical means of countering threats “TSPU” of Roskomnadzor and the Main Radio Frequency Center, which were used to block resources.

The failures took place after Roskomnadzor conducted exercises on external security and stability of the RuNet in early December. The departments noted that the purpose of the exercises, which are held annually in accordance with the law on the “sovereign RuNet”, is to confirm the “readiness” of the Russian segment of the Internet to work without connections to the outside world. In particular, Roskomnadzor subsequently clarified “the availability of leading foreign and Russian services in the event of deliberate external influence.”

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