[At-Large] situation in Ukraine

[Oksana Prykhodko]

Thank you, Jose and Sylvia,

Siva, Ukraine really has more than 100 independent ISPs, and there is no
one "button" to turn-off the Internet in a country (and there were no such
attempts). We met some temporal or local blackouts , but everything was
restored quickly. More over, on Maidan our IT-namet (IT community) created
space of secured and stable Wi-Fi (and even common citizens opened their
Wi-Fi to everybody).

Nevertheless, it was repeatedly said: in case of serious problems with
Internet or mobile - go to the streets or central square (Maidan).



On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Oksana,
>
> It is interesting to note from the Washington Post article that  "It is
> served by many ISPs with many independent terrestrial connections to
> neighboring countries. Due to this, it would be difficult to have a
> national blackout in a place like Ukraine."  Perhaps in Ukraine, the ISP
> have a certain degree of independence, sufficient for them to hold on,
> despite political directives, if any. It is also possible that anyone who
> has considered a National blackout has also considered the unpredictable
> outcome of such a shutdown, that of wider and more intense protests
> resulting from a shutdown of the Internet infrastructure. Someone from
> Egypt was talking about such an effect at the European Summer School 2009,
> that people, who were otherwise not part of protests, came out to the
> streets when the Internet was shut down, so the Authorities restored the
> Internet :) Could that be one of the reasons why Internet is not blocked in
> Ukraine?
>
> Sivasubramanian M
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Oksana Prykhodko <sana.pryhod at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am sorry for any off-topick or wrong-doing. I received so many
> questions
> > and letters of support, that I decided to send you these two excellent
> > materials in English regarding situation in Ukraine.
> >
> > The first one is the official information of US Embassy in Moscow, and
> the
> > second one is the article in Washington Post on Internet access in
> Ukraine
> > and Crimea.
> >
> > http://moscow.usembassy.gov/settingrecordstraight.html
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/03/ukraine-is-in-turmoil-but-its-still-online-heres-why/
> >
> > And once again - I am safe, thank you all very-very much!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Oksana
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