Grizzly attack

A correspondent for the Daily Journal, when trying to access the Kommersant website, discovered an extraneous picture: instead of the usual newspaper header and list of materials, the screen featured an announcement of the people’s gathering on December 4 with an illustration of a bear with the United Russia flag hanging on the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower, so the spire pierces his back. The text next to the illustration read: “THEIR TIME IS UP. PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY AGAINST FALSE ELECTIONS. DECEMBER 4 18:00. MOSCOW. TRIUMPHAL SQUARE. ST. PETEBBURG (sic! - HEDGEHOG). M. "GOSTINY Dvor" Below was a link that could take you to the publishing house’s website, but the address in the address bar was not www.kommersant.ru, but reproduced a certain IP: http://195.68.141.146/. However, some materials did not open or were replaced by an error message. In the editorial office, the call from the Daily Journal correspondent caused bewilderment, but the technical service already knew about the attack and explained that someone was breaking the DNS of the provider.

Previously, the publishing house - however, represented not by Kommersant itself, but by Gazeta.Ru - found itself at the center of a double scandal. On the one hand, the deputy editor-in-chief of the online publication Roman Badanin refused a commercial offer to place the United Russia banner on the site (according to the general director of Kommersant, Badanin was thus interfering in the company’s commercial affairs). On the other hand, the publication stopped supporting the “Map of Election Violations” project, which it conducted jointly with the “Voice” Association, which is now under heavy attack from the authorities. Badanin, dissatisfied with this decision, quit.