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❌ System failures are recorded not only in Yandex. Their data centers serve a number of Russian companies that used these capacities One of Yandex's three supercomputers, "Galushkin", was located in Vladimir. They are key for training the company's AI models. All three supercomputers became unavailable for operation.

▸ UPDATE: The cascade from Yandex's downed data center keeps spreading. Magnit, Lamoda, and Vkusno, i Tochka apps are now collapsing because the Sasovo facility stopped breathing. One drone strike. One data center offline. And Russia's retail, fashion, and fast-food chains start falling over like dominoes. The sovereign cloud is now a single point of failure for the entire consumer economy. Every outage map just became a damage assessment.

In Russia, cafes and restaurants are closing en masse due to rising taxes. The total number of catering establishments in the country has decreased by 7.8% over the year, to 223,800. This decline is the first since 2022. In addition, Russians are eating out less frequently in order to save money.