In Russia, Google has been blocked
Last night at users in Russia began to have problems with access to Google sites. Most likely, Roskomnadzor partially blocked the search engine after Telegram.
What happened
In addition to the search engine, not Gmail and Other Google services (Google Play, translator, maps , etc. ). By data of the thermal fault map for site DownDetector , the difficulties with access occurred in Moscow, St. Petersburg , Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and a number of other cities. Have 68% of users could not access the main Google site, 31% - not could enter into your accounts.
The general director of the Diphost provider Philip Kulin adds that about 60 IP addresses google.com are blocked. At the same time, the Russian domain of google.ru search engine still works.
So far neither at Google, nor at Roskomnadzor does not commented on this situation.
FROM what all began
A everything began with the desire to block the Telegram messenger because of the refusal of its founder, Pavel Durov, to provide the FSB with encryption algorithms for correspondence. The " fire " also included addresses that allowed the messenger to remain accessible, VPN and proxy servers , through which you can bypass the blocking of sites that fall into black list of the controller. On April 17, it became known that lock more than 18 million IP-addresses of hosting providers Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Digital Ocean, with with the help of which the messenger circumvented " censorship ". At the same time, Telegram both worked and It works, just some users have to connect VPN, but this is done in two clicks.
Completed. " We we know about messages that some users in the Russia does not have access to some Google services. we understand the these messages " - stated in Google.