A woman looks at her smartphone in central Moscow, Russia. The cellphone Internet shutdowns, ostensibly to thwart Ukrainian drone attacks, have hit dozens of Russian regions for months. — AP
TALLINN, Estonia: When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the Internet.
Credit cards that won't buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don't connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don't receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can't monitor their kids' blood glucose levels during outages.
