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Roskomnadzor removes the blockade. Victims can sue
Today around 15:00 the engineers of Roscomnadzor deleted from the register three major sub-networks:
● 52.192.0.0/11 — Amazon (2 097 152 addresses)
● 54.160.0.0/12 — Amazon (1,048,576 addresses)
● 91.121.0.0/16 is OVH SAS (65,536 addresses)

The number of IP addresses at once declined more than three million with 17.8 million to 14.6 million Roskomnadzor officially announced that soon intends to hit the rest of the subnet hosting providers, "to avoid restricting access to good Internet resources".

The online community can breathe a sigh of relief. On the 13th day of the blockade is finally removed. Foreign cloud services suffered losses, but withstood the pressure and refused to cooperate with Roskomnadzor. The messenger Telegram passed through a difficult period and saved the users. The Roskomnadzor has been the whipping from the media and many officials.

The regulator had no other choice but to surrender.

It is hoped that in the near future, most web services will work without interruption.

Roskomnadzor said that it will continue to register individual IP addresses, that uses Telegram messenger and block them one by one. But we know that this will not prevent the work of the messenger. Apparently, Telegram originally expected it to be the mode of operation of Roskomnadzor, and carpeted blocking subnets a huge surprise to everyone.

Thus, blockade of the Runet officially removed. It lasted from 16 to 28 April 2018. It certainly will be a significant event in the history of the Internet and may be awarded a separate article in Wikipedia.

It is possible to note a happy ending — a happy ending to this story and the shameful retreat of the clumsy controller. As said the head of the Federal Antimonopoly service (FAS) of Russia Igor Artemyev, "the state can't afford to sit in a puddle, and it's very sad..."

Except for "stranded in a puddle state," the losers remained, and numerous Russian companies, which for 13 days, the sites were working properly. Because of the clumsy actions of Roskomnadzor they had to suffer losses and pay the penalty to the counterparties. But there is hope that the regulator compensates for losses.

The statement of claim in court on Roskomnadzor

Lawyers "Roskomsnab" prepared a claim form for submission by the organizations against the unlawful actions of the Supervisory authority.

"We still get complaints about the unavailability of web resources entrepreneurs, backend, mobile applications and third-party services that were used by the Russian business community and non-profit organizations for their own professional activities. According to preliminary estimates, these actions led to millions of losses and paralyzed the operations of many Russian organizations, — stated in the message "Roskomsnab". — If your company became the victim of such negligent performance by Roskomnadzor of their powers and you, your employees, and your customers have lost access to the site or mobile application, we urge you to protect your rights in court and to appeal the actions of the ILV for the recognition of the actions of the Supervisory authority is illegal."

If in court it is proven the fault of the Agency staff who took the decision to block whole ranges of network addresses, with millions of IPS, the plaintiff may claim damages from the Treasury of the Russian Federation.