Looked at Google, Wikipedia, and Snopes. Did turn up an article that probably accounts for the Russian exodus: The logic of Russian Internet censorship - The Washington Post " LiveJournal has only been taken down explicitly twice to my knowledge. Last July, on the morning of the Navalny verdict, the entire site was suddenly taken down with a notice of “Planned Maintenance.” And the blocking of Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal Thursday was the only time it had been specifically taken down. "
My only other data point is that https://www.iplocation.net/ says that mdlbear.livejournal.com is located in San Francisco. IP location is inexact, of course; I can think of several ways to hide their location, and traceroute is blocked somewhere along the way; they might simply be using their old US servers as routers/caches.
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" LiveJournal has only been taken down explicitly twice to my knowledge. Last July, on
the morning of the Navalny verdict, the entire site was suddenly taken down with a
notice of “Planned Maintenance.” And the blocking of Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal
Thursday was the only time it had been specifically taken down. "
My only other data point is that https://www.iplocation.net/ says that mdlbear.livejournal.com is located in San Francisco. IP location is inexact, of course; I can think of several ways to hide their location, and traceroute is blocked somewhere along the way; they might simply be using their old US servers as routers/caches.