National shutdown
Internet Services
Following political unrest in the country over rising energy prices, authorities in Kazakhstan cut off access to the Internet starting 11:00 UTC on 5 January 2022. The access appeared to be briefly and partly restored for few hours each day before being cut again. The outage continued until 10 January 2022 and by one estimate cost the Kazakhstan economy over $400 million USD. The lives of Kazakh citizens were severely disrupted as the outage affected such critical systems as banks and mobile payment systems.
- Total Duration 5 days, 15 hours
Kazakhstan
- Population
- 20,843,754
- UN Classification
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- Land Locked Developing Country
Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free
Local impact
Following political unrest in the country over rising energy prices, authorities in Kazakhstan cut off access to the Internet starting 11:00 UTC on 5 January 2022. The access appeared to be briefly and partly restored for few hours each day before being cut again. The outage continued until 10 January 2022 and by one estimate cost the Kazakhstan economy over $400 million USD. The lives of Kazakh citizens were severely disrupted as the outage affected such critical systems as banks and mobile payment systems.
Other supporting information
CAIDA IODA
Cloudflare Radar
Detail of Traffic in Kazakhstan
Google Transparency Report
Analysis of Traffic and disruptions to Google
Google Transparency Report
Social media
We're noticing Internet disruptions and subsequent shutdown in Kazakhstan, amid mass protests against sudden energy price rises. https://t.co/jUN2kvUsAN
— Cloudflare (@Cloudflare) January 5, 2022
Update on situation in Kazakhstan:
— Doug Madory (also on Bluesky) (@DougMadory) January 6, 2022
Internet down *again* at 21:50 UTC (3:50am local). Restoration lasted ~4hrs. #KeepItOn #KazakhstanProtests https://t.co/PamNe88imo pic.twitter.com/meBRZxGdi8
Around 11:15 UTC today we saw the majority of #RIPEAtlas probes in #Kazakhstan lose connectivity. This probably indicates some wider restrictions on Internet access around that time in #Kazakhstan . pic.twitter.com/488zjQX58c
— Emile Aben (@meileaben) January 5, 2022
Internet Shutdown in #Kazakhstan documented by open source data from IODA (Internet Outage Detection And Analysis) at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center.https://t.co/EtTIgR6hr0 pic.twitter.com/yIszQ0NPCr
— Oliver Linow (@OliverLinow) January 5, 2022
After seeing disrupted #mobile connectivity yesterday, a nationwide #Internet shutdown due to anti-government protests is now underway in #Kazakhstan 🇰🇿@CloudflareRadar shows associated traffic decline starting at 1045 UTC, as well as a drop in DDoS attacks from the country. pic.twitter.com/L4rVnsG3gK
— David Belson (@[email protected]) (@dbelson) January 5, 2022