{"id":49545,"date":"2021-09-16T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49545"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:11:13","slug":"experts-report-google-docs-blockage-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/experts-report-google-docs-blockage-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts report Google Docs blockage in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of 15 September, subscribers of Russian operators began experiencing problems accessing Google Docs. Experts said the service had started to be blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The GlobalCheck project recorded issues affecting subscribers of MTS, MegaFon and Rostelecom.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?15\" data-telegram-post=\"globalcheck\/25\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later, specialists from the RosKomSvoboda organisation said that MTS and MegaFon were blocking Google Docs across Russia.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?15\" data-telegram-post=\"rks_tech_talk\/211\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Google Docs, experts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/globalcheck\/26\">reported problems<\/a> with access to the telegra.ph publishing service.<\/p>\n<p>The blocks are presumably linked to the publication of Smart Voting lists \u2014 earlier on 15 September they began circulating via Google Docs and telegra.ph.<\/p>\n<p>By Thursday morning, 16 September, the services were operating normally again.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?15\" data-telegram-post=\"usher2\/2129\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RosKomSvoboda&#8217;s technical director, Stanislav Shakirov, told ForkLog that the blocking employed threat-countermeasures (\u0422\u0421\u041f\u0423):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThese were some tests \u2014 what would happen if you did this, and whether it is possible to block in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, Roskomnadzor tested the possibility <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blocking-of-dns-services-in-russia-protonmail-scandal-and-other-cybersecurity-events\">mass blocking of public DNS services<\/a> Google and Cloudflare on major providers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/roskomnadzor-blocks-six-vpn-services\">blocked six VPN services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of September 15, subscribers of Russian operators began experiencing problems accessing Google Docs. Experts said the service had started to be blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,738,27],"class_list":["post-49545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-google","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49547,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49545\/revisions\/49547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}