Living question · provisional

Can Yandex users recover reliable services after the loss of data centres?

Rides, payments and files depend on infrastructure whose recovery users do not control.

What we currently think

The 14 October account describes uneven recovery; these outages do not establish the disappearance of influence operations.

Latest movement · New thread

Yandex: the cloud has an address

Reporting on 14 October describes recovery and limitations; Cloudflare challenges the political reading of traffic.

Working hypotheses

No public hypothesis yet.

The red thread

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Week ending 2026-10-18
Issue 07 · r1
Yandex: the cloud has an address
Reporting on 14 October describes recovery and limitations; Cloudflare challenges the political reading of traffic.
Judgment : The 14 October account describes uneven recovery; these outages do not establish the disappearance of influence operations.
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Sources
- Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
  The analysis separates indexing from malicious automation; it does not establish that propaganda vanished.
- Сбои в такси, проблемы с «Диском» и три суперкомпьютера под угрозой: главные последствия ударов по дата-центрам «Яндекса»
  Account of disrupted services and partial recovery.
- Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside Russia
  Reuters reports successive strikes and Yandex’s statements; Ukrainian responsibility is attributed to those accounts.