Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers disrupt dozens of Russian court hearings
After Ukrainian armed forces struck data centers of the Russian tech company Yandex, dozens of arbitration court hearings in Russia were postponed or interrupted. The independent outlet Verstka reports the problem was still not fully resolved by October 16.
Dozens of court hearings in Russia have been canceled or interrupted because of "technical malfunctions" following attacks by Ukraine's armed forces on data centers of the Russian technology company Yandex, the independent Russian news outlet Verstka has reported. Hearings began to be canceled on October 8, when Ukraine hit a Yandex data center in Sasovo, in Russia's Ryazan region.
PravoTech, the company that services the electronic system of Russia's arbitration courts, sent out notices about a "mass outage" at the Yandex Cloud data center. The outage affected arbitration courts in the Sverdlovsk, Smolensk, Tula, Kostroma, Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions, as well as in Altai Krai and the Volga district.
What stopped working
The courts were unable to hold online hearings, make audio and video recordings, or process documents in the "Moy Arbitr" ("My Arbitrator") system.
As a result, dozens of hearings had to be postponed or interrupted between October 8 and 14, and some petitions were left unconsidered. According to Verstka, the problem had not been fully resolved by October 16: case files on the courts' websites do not open, and files containing rulings cannot be downloaded.
