It’s just weird watching a leftist country spiral into total disintegration with near-starving people but they still have internet, upload videos to social media so they still have working cell phones, and they still have television. I’d think food would take precedence over electronic communications. I’d think a near-dictator would have clamped down on them by now, too.
Oil booms allow to hide the decay in commie petrostates, but the crash is that much faster when the oil boom ends and the money is suddenly gone.