A Russian ‘cybermilitia’ is being blamed for disrupting Kyrgyzstan networks:

…what’s worrisome to [Don Jackson, the director of threat intelligence at SecureWorks] is the speed with which this attack was mounted. “To put some perspective on this, it’s been an escalating pattern from Estonia to Georgia to here,” he said, referring to the 2007 and 2008 attacks against other former Soviet republics. “The attacks are more closely coinciding with events that are core to the Russian interest, with increasingly fast response and quick mobilization.

“When it once took days or weeks, now we’re seeing it within hours,” Jackson said.

The so called “militia” is really a group that manage botnets and servers more commonly used for spam and phishing. They are believed to be Russian because of the traffic patterns, but the fact that they use resources also for political events underscores their background and interests.