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Russian officials shut off Internet access in northern Crimea, near the border town of Armyansk, where Moscow claims to have prevented an armed incursion by Ukrainian spies, according to Olga Kovitidi, Crimea’s representative in the upper house of the Russian parliament and a member of the Federation Council’s committee on national defense. Kovitidi told the independent television network Dozhd that Internet access has been disabled in the area to assist police in their efforts to apprehend armed “saboteurs” who allegedly infiltrated from mainland Ukraine.
Shutting off Internet access was “for security reasons,” Kovitidi explained. “This was to …read more
Source: Global Voices
