During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the country’s two houses of parliament on Tuesday, state media websites suffered an outage, preventing access to the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and the Smotrim live-streaming platform.
The VGTRK website claimed “technical works were being carried out,” while Smotrim was not loading. The state-run RIA Novosti news agency attributed the outage to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, but Reuters was unable to independently verify the cause of the disruption.
