A Russian independent newspaper has suffered seven straight days of denial-of-service attacks.

"Novayagazeta.ru remained unreachable at time of writing, the result of a week of powerful attacks that during their peak delivered more than 1.5 million visits per second, according to news reports," writes The Register's Dan Goodin. "It's the strongest assault ever to hit the paper, which regularly criticizes the Russian government."

"In recent years, the Russian government has been accused of orchestrating denial-of-service attacks on websites in the republic of Georgia and in Estonia just as conflicts touched off between Russia and those two smaller countries," Goodin writes.

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