In Russia, Google has been blocked

By: Elena Shcherban | 22.04.2018, 12:55

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.