By the end of 2025, russia ranked first in the world for internet shutdowns. russians may take pride in this \u201cglobal leadership\u201d \u2014 but there is a catch.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f According to monitoring services, the cumulative duration of shutdowns reached 37,166 hours, while economic losses amounted to $11.9 billion. By comparison, Venezuela, which ranked second, was without internet for 5,952 hours over the year. The gap with russia is almost sixfold. This can indeed be seen as a \u201cmajor achievement\u201d for a state that has spent years talking about \u201cdigital sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The scale of internet shutdowns in russia is staggering and can no longer be covered up with the usual excuses about \u201cprotection from scammers\u201d or \u201csecurity concerns.\u201d This is a systemic practice affecting dozens of regions and becoming the new norm.<\/p>\n
Internet shutdowns in russia have effectively turned into an instrument of state policy. During blackouts, only resources from a kremlin-approved \u201cwhitelist\u201d remain accessible. This is a deliberate strategy by the russian authorities aimed at achieving complete digital isolation of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By the end of 2025, russia ranked first in the world for internet shutdowns. russians may take pride in this \u201cglobal leadership\u201d \u2014 but there is a catch. \u25ab\ufe0f According to monitoring services, the cumulative duration of shutdowns reached 37,166 hours, while economic losses amounted to $11.9 billion. By comparison, Venezuela, which ranked second, was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}