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‘How are we supposed to communicate?’ Russian officials tell Meduza that mobile Internet blackouts and blocked messaging apps are undermining their ability to manage public sentiment:

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‘How are we supposed to communicate?’ Russian officials tell Meduza that mobile Internet blackouts and blocked messaging apps are undermining their ability to manage public sentiment — Meduza Russian officials are complaining about the country’s mobile Internet shutdowns and blocked messaging apps. The outages don’t just disrupt their day-to-day work — they’re cutting off the channels regional administrations rely on to communicate with each other and to monitor public sentiment. As the Kremlin pushes residents onto its state-built Max messenger and hints that a full block of Telegram may be on the horizon, the system officials depend on to feed information to their constituents is starting to crack. Meduza special correspondent Andrey Pertsev spoke with officials and political strategists to learn how Russia’s information lockdown is backfiring on its own bureaucracy. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/22/how-are-we-supposed-to-communicate