People take part in a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Vladivostok, Russia January 23, 2021. REUTERS/Sergei Shevchenko
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mobile phone and internet services in Russia suffered outages on Saturday as police cracked down on anti-Kremlin protesters, the monitoring site downdetector.ru showed.
The authorities sometimes interfere with mobile communication networks to make it harder for protesters to communicate among themselves and share video footage online.
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