Sales of offline communication gear and paper maps surged in Moscow as residents adapt to repeated mobile internet disruptions in Russia’s capital.

[UPDATE: Through a translator, we managed to secure an interview with Artemy Lebedev, the elusive founder of Art. Lebedev Studio] London is classic, NY is nice, Tokyo is nightmare. We’ve had them all.

For roughly the past week, mobile internet across central Moscow and parts of St. Petersburg has been intermittently failing. People can't load apps, hail cabs, or, ...