Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 10 – Internet users
across Siberia and the Russian Far East are complaining of slow speeds and the
failure of computer payment systems, a problem Rostelekom says it is working to
correct but that could be the result of efforts by the authorities to test
their ability to shut off the “sovereign” Russian internet from the world wide
web.
Clients in Irkutsk, Novosibirsk,
Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Tomsk and Khabarovsky, all
thousands of kilometers from Moscow, have complained, the Znak news
agency reports, citing social networks and the Downdetector portal (znak.com/2019-11-10/polzovateli_sibiri_i_dalnego_vostoka_zhaluyutsya_na_problemy_s_internetom).
The Russian internet provider says that
it is working on the problem and hopes to correct it within a few hours. It may
very well succeed in doing that, but this case is worrisome given Moscow’s
desire to be able to cut off Russian users from the world wide web and its proclivity
for testing such policies far from Moscow so that they will get less attention
than otherwise.
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