Live Journal dies during Russian March

The disconnection of the Live Journal site on the morning of 4th November generated a number of assumptions about the "close correlation with events taking place in the country". First of all it coincided with the banned "Russian March", which was organized by the "Movement Against Illegal Immigration". The mass actions included several meetings in different parts of Moscow and other cities and a dangerous plan for a meeting in the Moscow Metro. The participants dug up all the operative information they required on the locations of the actions from the journals on Livejournal.com. Therefore, there was an assumption that the service was disconnected deliberately, to disorient the participants of the "Russian March". There was also a version that the disconnection was linked with the company Sup, which had received the licence to support the Russian part of LJ. As far as the announcements on the Live Journal website itself are concerned, they declared stated that the problems are connected with an accident at the Internap hosting centre, where LJ's servers are located. And it was not only Russians who suffered, but users from other countries as well.