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Russia's Digital DARK AGE: Why this Strategy Could End Economy, Putin & the War?!
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Silicon Bites Ep421 | 2026-10-13 | Russia was one of the most developed digital countries in the world - an early large-scale adopter of mobile communications and online shopping - and with extensive range of government services moved online. Ukraine could end not only the digital economy in a few weeks (that's happening) but could crash the entire economy with just a few targeted strikes.----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.org----------SOURCES:Reuters / Daily Sabah — Drone hits data center of Russia's 'Google' in 1st for Ukraine war Reuters / The Star — Drones hit Yandex site in first major attack on Russian data hub Reuters / The Star — Russia's Yandex says second data centre hit by drone attackMeduza — Ukraine strikes Yandex data center housing two of the company's supercomputers Meduza — How vulnerable is Russia's internet to further drone attacks? (Sarkis Darbinyan / RKS.global) Kyiv Post — Several modules at Yandex Kaluga data center disabled Newsweek — Ukraine strikes second data center of Russia's Google in two days (military-blogger reaction)Charter97 / Meduza — Yandex unable to give timeline for restoring the "iron heart" The Moscow Times / NV — Payments fail, cash dries up as outage cripples Russia's biggest banks (April 2026 Sber/VTB/Alfa/T-Bank outage)Bank of Russia via Finance.Mail — Household bank deposits reach record 67 trillion rubles NAND Research — Memory & NAND Flash Crisis: 2026 Update (server DRAM +90% QoQ; Goldman Sachs) Al Jazeera — Ukraine takes aim at Russia's AI data infrastructure Cybernews — Ukrainian attacks force Russia to deploy counter-drone tech at data centersComNews / sk.ru — Sberbank data centres: Yuzhny Port, Skolkovo (background on Sber's mirrored sites) ----------