Russia’s crackdown on Telegram disrupts Google services across the country

On April 23, Russian Internet users reported mass disruptions to almost all services offered by Google — from the main search engine to the company’s reCAPTCHA (which distinguishes human users from bots). The outages started after Russia’s federal censor added another 118 Google IP addresses to the country’s Internet blacklist over the weekend.

After a wave of complaints from the public, Roskomnadzor issued several statements on Monday denying that it has blocked Google’s online services.