Moscow Exchange

Maybe ... foreigners won't be allowed to trade starting with the opening bell this morning (which should have already happened.) It wouldn't surprise me if the government shut the exchange down completely.

On the other hand, there have been widespread DDOS attacks as well as some pretty high-profile compromises of the Russian computing and network infrastructure. You can even help if you'd like - https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/.

This should likely be an `Ask HN:`, most will assume it's a direct link off of the website otherwise.

A lot of Russian websites are under DDoS. Try some of the online Russian news websites, same thing, at least for me. On the exchange side, they disallowed foreigners from selling Russian assets so they denied the service the old fashioned way anyhow.

The fascist Russian government has launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine, a country very close to Europe, which led to the EU and US imposing strict sanctions including a SWIFT block for Russian banks and seizure of Russian assets.

The Ukrainian cybersecurity department is waging war on Russian websites, any and all of them. They've also been really good at (I don't want to call it that, but it is) war propaganda, which got a lot of volunteers to join.

Joining the cyber war is easily done from anywhere in the world, so anyone with any skills is contributing to the defense of a sovereign state that is currently being invaded by fascist Russia.

Nevermind the websites, the EU could see major power outages and severe economic damage, as there is a real possibility of Russia turning off the gas supply to Europe (gas is a fraction of their profits, oil is first by far and even that will be affected) to pressure them into easing restrictions and staying out of the war.

They just stopped trading and probably block themselves from the outside.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/mos...

It‘s a targeted DDOS coordinated by the „IT Army of Ukraine“

//Edit: Other current targets include Sberbank

Not sure what is going on there, but several Russian stocks (including ADRs and GDRs listed on the NYSE/LSE) have been suspended from trading.

Well - https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_a5fc34ceee9ff3c7c7780ad64a...

Russia shutters its stock market as the ruble crashes

I received a message from my broker (ibkr) that MOEX is not available for trading today.

Imgur source: https://imgur.com/gallery/CbJcd7G

www.moex.com seems to be resolving to 0.0.0.0 - explains why it can't be reached.

nslookup www.moex.com 8.8.8.8 Server: dns.google Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer: Name: cl-ae0978b2.gcdn.co Address: 0.0.0.0 Aliases: www.moex.com

Yep, there was talk about disabling 'sell' button for outside investors in a reply to 'illegitimate' sanctions. If you are a russian equity bag holder i feel bad for you, son. But not too bad... due to the fact that proverbial 'bear poking' very quickly escalated to bear bitch slapping, what come next should be interesting to observe (provided you are in a bunker).

They have closed the market until tomorrow morning when they will reassess.

This seems to be an innocent question but in fact it's a weaponized HN hug of death.

Probably just blocked outside traffic, specially from EU, US and Japan.

A lot of official Russian sites are 404-ing, including state media.

It doesn't make sense for the exchange to trade at the moment.

Why did the US and Europe choose Saturday to announce blocking Swift? It seems if they did it while the markets were open on Monday it would cause much more severe damage to Russia.