Above all, the population was concerned with the question of who or what had such power to simply flip the internet switch in the capital without any explanation. The mayor speculated that it could be a temporary drone defense. However, this excuse was no good. Ukrainian drones are not an everyday phenomenon in Moscow; only rarely does a drone make it to the center of Moscow. And missile defense does not have such powers. Even the FSB state security agency couldn’t really be trusted to make such a decision.
So someone has to be more powerful than the state security and the mayor. In the Russian hierarchy of security services, only the FSO, the president’s personal security guard who reports to him personally, is in a position to make such a decision. There are now increasing rumors that the internet was turned off by the boss himself. Apparently, Putin was extremely disturbed by the attitude and rapid speed with which the Iranian Ayatollahs were transported to heaven, to Jannah.
The Israelis admitted that they had hacked the Iranians’ video surveillance years ago. That’s why they supposedly knew in real time which of the country’s leaders were where and when. Confronted with the question of whether such an action would also be possible in another country, the Israeli security service spokeswoman replied: Anything is possible. The whole story could be a canard, especially since the connection between the mobile Internet and video surveillance is not clear.
It’s not for nothing that the Russian president doesn’t use the Internet and likes to say that the network was developed by the CIA. There must be some worm in there. The images from Iran had an impact. It was decided to hide the president for security reasons. Since mid-March, no one has been allowed to know where he is; he only appears on television from the “Beige Room,” which is what journalists call his makeshift offices, which are spread all over the country, mostly underground, and all look the same.
As a further step, the internet was switched off in the country. In the regions, however, people have enough to do with other problems. They have had no network several times since the beginning of the war. This was only new for Muscovites. And from April onwards, Telegram Messenger will finally be switched off in Russia. With a hundred million users, it is the only popular messenger, source of information and an important means of communication for Russians. A protest demonstration has been announced online for March 29th. Nobody came.
