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Try to imagine life without the internet, from simple things like shopping and banking to staying connected to the world.
Well, many Russians are now getting a taste of what that feels like.
Russians feel that they live behind an iron curtain.
Again, this time, a digital iron curtain.
There have been a lot of cities, especially in the regions of Russia,
that have been living without a stable internet connection for almost a year now.
And recently even major cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg have been forced back to basics,
with mobile internet and popular apps like Telegram suddenly out of reach.
Sales have gone up of things like walkie-talkies and pagers and landline telephones because people are quite desperate now
to find at least some way of staying connected.