Numerous Russian websites cannot be accessed for hours. The responsible Russian ministry is only cryptic about the reasons for the breakdown.
The Ministry of Digitalization announced in the evening that the technical problems had been resolved. Experts had repeatedly warned that the creation of an independent Russian Internet, ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, would lead to failures. It is also planned to transfer all Russian Internet users to a national DNS server.. Independent experts attributed the serious breakdown at the end of the month to these government interventions.