Priest Pavel Ostrovsky encounters internet outage in Tyumen
During a visit to Tyumen, priest Pavel Ostrovsky experienced inconvenience due to a mobile internet shutdown that has been ongoing for some time.
Apr 29, 2026 0
Pavel Ostrovsky spent several days in Tyumen and encountered issues accessing mobile internet.
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Prominent priest Pavel Ostrovsky encountered a lack of mobile internet during his visit to Tyumen and reported it on his Telegram channel.
He wrote: «The city lives without mobile internet (my two SIM cards, MegaFon and MTS, did not work). Telegram via the hotel’s WiFi worked only with a VPN. It’s the 21st century, but our bureaucrats are sending us back to the analog era.»
According to Ostrovsky, from a spiritual perspective, such a situation could be useful as it provides more opportunities for contemplation.
«But from all other perspectives, as someone who is unequivocally against revolutionary solutions, I was alarmed by the feeling of how protest potential is being created by our own hands out of nothing,» he added.
The priest also noted that if the internet outage is part of creating a «sovereign internet,» then there is logic to it: external forces would not be able to disconnect the country from the global network.
Restrictions on mobile internet have been in place in Tyumen for a long time, and authorities explain these measures as security concerns.
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