We’re not going down without a fight. It is very important for us to keep our resources on the strike, and especially on election observers, accessible, but we have no intention of blindly following orders from the crooks at Roskomnadzor (Russia’s state media and internet regulator).
That is also because we can see where all this is heading. A year ago, it was impossible to imagine such lawless and illegal blocking. Wait another six months, and it will become standard practice.
So the future lies in finding technical ways to fight back, not in moving information elsewhere. They will not leave any “other places” untouched.
They started blocking my blog yesterday at around 1 p.m. Our technical team immediately began countering it. Here you can see the site availability chart.
After we fought them off and restored availability to an acceptable level, they launched two massive DDoS attacks against us.
You see, right? This is not just Roskomnadzor—it is the entire Kremlin machine for suppressing the internet at work.
Even so, we fought them off again, and right now the blocked blog still opens normally for 66% of visitors.
So as things stand now, it’s more accurate to say that we outmaneuvered Roskomnadzor than that it managed to block us.
We will keep resisting. Huge thanks to our amazing technical team.