Here's a bit from the AP story:
"Evidently it was not amateurs, not hooligans (that) did this. It is a deliberate act. We can only guess who stands behind this," he said.
Then he added, ironically, "As you know, we have very many friends."
A denial-of-service attack simulates millions of people visiting the Web site at the same time, overloading the server and causing it to crash. Novaya Gazeta routinely records 250,000 visits per week. Lipsky said the peak of the attack, last Thursday, saw 1.5 million visits per second. The site, Novayagazeta.ru, was still down as of late Monday.
Lipsky said the newspaper has yet to hear from the Prosecutor General's Office, with which it lodged a complaint last week.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement Monday that it was "deeply dismayed" by the attacks and called for a thorough investigation.
