The websites of various media companies and organizations that have a critical attitude towards the United Russia party, Sunday on the day of the Russian parliamentary elections were shut down as a result of large-scale ddos attacks.
In Russia, Sunday parliamentary elections were held. The United Russia party of prime minister Vladimir Putin and president Dmitri Medvedev is the obvious winner, but the political party runs the risk that the declining popularity of the absolute majority in the state Duma to tackle. The opposition, mainly through the internet, accuses United Russia, however, unfair elections, among other things, by fraud at the polling stations and the silence of opponents.
The website of Golos, an association of independent election observers, is Sunday, hours offline. The organization went through a map with where in Russia malpractices at the polling stations are found, but the pages are due to the ongoing ddos attacks are inaccessible, reports news agency AFP. Members of Golos were complaining the past few days has been about opposition by the Russian authorities.
Also the website of the Russian radio station The Echo of Moscow is taken. According to the station, the ddos attacks are clearly intended to prevent the media critical messages are published on the parliamentary elections. Various other websites that are arrayed against the powers that be in the Kremlin, also reported ddos attacks on their web servers, while Thursday, hackers the website of Russian business newspaper Kommersant cracked. The attackers knew the ip address of the website to change and it’s already four days long out of reach.