On the day of the event, the website of "Total Dictation" faced DDoS attacks, according to the director of the foundation, Vyacheslav Belyakov. Technical support tried to resolve the issue. The voluntary annual educational campaign for all lovers of literate written Russian language took place on April 5 in 50 countries and online.
The director of the foundation, Vyacheslav Belyakov, noted that the attacks on the site on April 5 were carried out from 10:00 AM. A similar story with a website failure on the day of the start of registration for "Total Dictation" is not the first time, but this year not only their Internet platform faced the attack.
Despite the difficulties with access to the official website, many were able to join the online event through social networks, where recordings of the dictations of the first three parts of Marina Moskvina's text were posted.
According to the press service, participants wrote the dictation in Vladivostok, Chita, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and other cities. Abroad — in Vietnam, India, Kazakhstan and China. In Anadyr, a veteran of the siege wrote the dictation.
The text of the writer Marina Moskvina was dictated in universities, schools, libraries and other unusual places. Stars, public figures and cultural workers, including Dmitry Malikov, Vladimir Pozner and Svetlana Kryuchkova, acted as speakers.
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