Websites of Russian courts, Judicial Department down

In the morning hours of Monday, October 7, the websites of the Russian courts on the sudrf.ru domain and that of the Judicial Department, including the site of the Pravosudie State-Run Automated System, went out of service.

This was reported by Mediazona, Ukrinform saw

The press services of the Russian courts offered no comment on why their websites are down, forwarding the enquiries to the Pravosudie press service. The latter was not available for comment when contacted via phone.

At the same time, the websites of Moscow courts, hosted on a separate domain, operate as usual.

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