Admitad affiliate russia was originally 'employed for promotions' and broadcasting on a VVN platform.
The blockage has been lifted and the server has restored access. The network has also confirmed that other node hosts around the world are still blocked, in response to the DDoS attack.
After the block in question was lifted, European news outlets reported that "Russia is the vanguard of the wider Russia-NATO plan to stir up an anti-Western 'hooligan campaign'. It may seem obvious to see that in the Soviet Union at that time, Lenin, Stalin and the Bolsheviks were active channels for propaganda and organized and funded terrorism and, even more shocking, 'communism' is a rationalisation for the horrors of living under tyranny." However, a response from the NATO Regional Coordination Centre (RECC) stated that the "Russian government has no desire to provoke an accidental war".
In May 2014, the United States' National Security Council issued a statement saying that the West had mistakenly believed the RT statements as true after "an unfortunate error in the US network's analysis of U.S. domestic media coverage".
In December 2011, the BBC reported that, according to a Russian opposition research group called "Internet Research Agency", Russian opposition groups were "full-fledged state-sponsored propaganda campaigns", which were made possible by "borrowing" the "fact-checking capacity" of the Internet.
The following month, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that both the government and the media were using Russian-language social media platforms. The report, which did not verify the claims, notes that the government controlled Russian-speaking media outlets. Following the January 2012 publication of the "Putin's Warning" report, the NYT found that Russia was using social media networks to finance its propaganda. In March 2012, the British newspaper "The Guardian" reported that Russia is using social networks and social media marketplaces to give Russian speakers and Russian language speakers access to pornography, a discourse that rose to prominence during Ukraine's uprising in February 2014.