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Mass Blackout Takes Russian Internet Offline
(www.themoscowtimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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It doesn't 'resolve' to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who's record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.
I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.