Russia social media outage likely caused by state internet regulator

Russia experienced another major social media outage this week, with messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp and Viber going down for thousands of citizens. According to a Russian internet monitoring website, messaging apps were mostly unavailable on Tuesday in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk and the far eastern regions of Khabarovsk Krai and Sakha. Residents of

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