INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
authorities themselves may have attempted to block the popular messaging services.Federal media regulator Roskomnadzor blamed the outage on
like Wikipedia, Discord, Yandex and VKontakte, as well as outages in some Central Asian countries whose network traffic transits through
to organize a DDoS on every operator
block WhatsApp, which has over 80 million users in Russia.The latest outages come amid accusations from activist groups that Moscow is
intensifying internet censorship by blocking online platforms that carry critical information about the Kremlin or its invasion of
Ukraine.Authorities started clamping down on YouTube in recent weeks, with users in Russia reporting difficulties accessing the popular
video-sharing site earlier this month.AFP contributed reporting.
