Officials are not asleep and are constantly looking for ways to cut money. But this time they were simply deprived of a good budget, which was allocated for the purchase of operating systems for schools and they apparently decided to cope with their methods.
The way to get "laconic":

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Apparently in this way someone from above is trying to get everyone back to the divine Windows.
I will quote the message:
In September, in the Orenburg region, the content filtering system at the provider level suddenly changed. Now all sites that have the word ubuntu are blocked. I have the whole school on ubuntu, the repositories are all inaccessible now, even a small package can not be downloaded. Can anyone comment on what it is and what kind of discrimination? Is it only here or else in any regions? The regional management of Rostelecom said that all the lists are given from above, from the federals and they cannot unlock anything without instructions.
The topic itself with alarming news is located here:
spohelp.ru (try, please, without need not to go to the forum, habraeffekt same).
Not bad news
for Ubuntu 12.10 , right?
UPD : The comments suggest that the issue is resolved. Interestingly, this was helped by a post on Habré? :)
If you have an official response from Rostelecom, send it to HP, please.