Team social network Vkontakte announced the achievement of a milestone in attendance in Ukraine — 18 million unique visitors per day. This is two million more than the previous record of the social network. The developers emphasize that, thus, may 16, the social network has become the most popular Internet resource of Ukraine.
We will remind, on the eve of Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine, signed the decree, in fact, blocking access to Yandex, Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte in the country. The decree enacts a decision of the NSDC (national security Council and defense), “On the use of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)”.
Under these sanctions, including Internet service providers may not provide services for user access “service resources Mail.ru (www.mail.ru) and socially-oriented resources of “Vkontakte” (www.vk.com) and “Classmates” (www.ok.ru)”. In addition, the ban applies to various Yandex services. from Mail to Maps, ordinary and search for images, News, real Estate, Tickets, Metrics, and others.