Funfact
Russian Federation is/Was not affected by the global crowdstrike outage, as Crowdstrike is hardly used in the country.
Russian officials boasted on Friday that Moscow was spared the impact of the global IT systems outage because of its increased self-sufficiency after years of Western sanctions
Crowdstrike had no known customers in Russia. Russian market is dominated by cybersecurity firms such as Kaspersky Labs.
"CrowdStrike has not provided any services in Russia, since February 2022 for sure," Mikhail Klimarev from the non-governmental Internet Protection Society - "Everyone has long been preparing for the possibility of being cut off from Microsoft due to sanctions. The current incident is a test of how well we have prepared. So far, everything is fine, at least for the major players, and generally, there is no panic in the market,"
The Kremlin, along with companies from state nuclear giant Rosatom, which operates all of Russia's nuclear plants, to major lenders and airlines, reported no glitches amid the outage