Evening Medusa

April 17. Roskomnadzor is fighting with the Internet

Roskomnadzor blocked millions of Amazon and Google IP addresses-the largest hosting providers, whose infrastructure uses Telegram to detour locks (and so far successfully- this is how it works ). Users of sites and services using these IP addresses faced interruptions in their work-in particular, some popular network games did not work, and Viber messengers “broke” calls.

Here are the latest news about Telegram blocking:

• At about 17:00 Moscow time, the number of blocked IP addresses approached 20 million, but then decreased-to about 17 million.
• Agora lawyers opened a hotline to help injured services.
• Roskomnadzor is looking for a solution to block the notifications through which Telegram sends up the updates to continue work. These fluffs are sent via Apple and Google, and their lock will affect all applications on user devices.
• Pavel Durov promised to sacrifice millions of dollars from his personal money for grants to Proxy and VPN administrators, which help to get around Telegram locks.
• Roskomnadzor said that a day his site was subjected to several DDOS attacks. At the time of sending the "evening jellyfish" the site has not opened for several hours.
• “Telegram degradation is now 30%,” said the head of Roskomnadzor.

Other topics

In Yerevan, protests on the appointment of the country's prime minister Serge Sargsyan, who has been the president (now this position has become a representative), last for several days. Today, protesters began to block government buildings. Despite this, the parliament appointed Sargsyan Prime Minister .

Filmers with NTV branded microphones pester lawyers and human rights activists on the street, who help the defendants in the Penza case, who complained about torture in the FSB, and ask them, for example, why they “cover terrorists”. They say that they do not have such employees .

The Ministry of Emergencies told how the fire began in the shopping center "Winter Cherry". According to the ministry, five minutes after the fire, all the evacuation paths were blocked by high toxic combustion products. If the notification worked and the evacuation exits would be open, all people could be removed a little less than three minutes.

Victor Davydov