April 6, 2026
Russian bank apps, telecom services, and Rostelecom home internet go down in widespread outages
Websites and apps belonging to banks, telecom operators, satellite companies, and other organizations in Russia went down on the evening of April 6, according to posts on the Telegram channel of the Russian outage-tracking service Sboi.rf (Outage.ru). The cause of the disruptions was not immediately known.
TL;DR
- Websites and apps of various Russian organizations, including banks, telecom operators, and satellite companies, went down on April 6.
- Affected services included Rostelecom, Alfa-Bank, NTV Plus, Tricolor, Gosuslugi, T2, Mosenergosbyt, Sberbank, Gazprombank, Okko, and World of Tanks.
- Rostelecom's home internet service reportedly stopped working in Moscow.
- The Russian outage-tracking service Sboi.rf also experienced downtime.
- This follows a major disruption to Russian bank services on April 3.
- Concerns were raised about Roskomnadzor's potential responsibility, similar to a previous incident.
- Roskomnadzor has been actively blocking Telegram and cracking down on VPN services in recent weeks.
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