About the news
On the evening of January 14, 2025, massive Internet access failures occurred in Russia, which caused significant inconvenience to users. The problems lasted about 15-20 minutes, and from about 17:30 to 18:00 Moscow time, the websites were restored, which allowed many to return to their usual online communication and work
The failure affected almost all telecom operators and providers, including Rostelecom, , MTS, Megafon and Beeline, and also affected the operation of government websites and major online services. Users also reported a complete loss of mobile communication for a time
The problems concerned access to government resources and Google services. For some users, only messengers such as Telegram and WhatsApp, as well as the VK social network, were opened
Expert commentary
Expert Anton Averyanov, CEO of ST IT, noted that such a large-scale failure could be caused by several factors, including possible problems in large data centers in Russia. “In places where servers and data of large companies are located, serious failures could occur, which, in turn, led to outages of other systems,” he explained
The director stressed that such failures always cause significant damage to many large companies, so after an incident they all strive to restore their services as quickly as possible. "Some services remained operational, which indicates that the problem affected only certain data centers. Companies whose data and main resources are located in other data centers that did not encounter problems were able to continue their work," Anton Averyanov added
