Access Denied to Russian Ministry of Defence website
Access Denied to Russian Ministry of Defence website
This is a weird post and I honestly did not know where to post it so its going here for now.
I’m writing a paper where I have to compared Putin and Xi Jingping on multiple factors, one of them being how does each president respond to regional threats. I was able to get access to the Chinese Ministry of Defence website very easily, just clicked on the link and I’m golden. When I did the same for the Russian Ministry of Defence I was give a screen saying access was denied, or when using a different app the servers don’t respond at all. When I briefly looked it up the answers I am getting are Kyiv did some sort of hack which may have made the Ministry respond with denying access to non-Russian citizens, or Russia made the Ministry of Defence website inaccessible to unfriendly nations in general.
I was told using the government’s official websites (the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) was a “scholarly” source so I figured using their defence ministry’s information could be good to use when talking about how they deal with threatening behaviour. I will most likely have to talk about specific situations being dealt with but I thought the Ministry would be the best place to start.
Is anyone else facing this problem? Is there anyway I can get around it? I know I should be using a VPN but I’m hesitant to commit to one right now (I’m not that tech savvy).
The sites work for me. Lots of western countries and ISPs block non-aligned government content, you can get around it with a VPN or often just a different DNS server. Switching your DNS server just takes a minute and doesn't cost anything, worth a try.
Well I caved and got a VPN (Mullvad) and yeah, that worked. I don’t know how to mess with my DNS server so VPN it is. Either the Canadian government is blocking the site or the Russian government is, either way I can access the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs without a VPN so it’s weird how its just the one website…
Lol the university I'm at blocks all .ru websites, rt.com, and lemmygrad. Oh and all Chinese social media apps. What a bastion of free speech and inquiry
How would you research extremism if you couldn't access the grad, though?
Welcome to the Great Firewall of the West
Honestly, for a firewall it isn’t very consistent. I can still access the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and RT with no problems.
It's fairly spotty so far, but I expect that we'll see censorship become increasingly more aggressive in the coming years.
URL?
This access denied is on the Russian side. It seems as though almost all Canadian IP addresses are blocked.
It's the western governments banning Russian pages, not the other way around.
Considering the access denied page was in Russian and said to request access, contact this email ending in a .Ru address, I would say that's blocking on the Russian side. If the DNS didn't resolve then I would say the blocking is on the Canadian side. This case may be different for other countries.