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Autonomous system

AS51472 AIF AO ARGUMENTY I FAKTY

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 256 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly RU
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 2 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Argumenty i Fakty

Russian Federation · AI-generated

media publishing business

AIF is the autonomous system for Argumenty i Fakty, a major Russian weekly newspaper and publishing house.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries the corporate network for the publisher, identified by the netname ARGUMENTY_I_FAKTY and registrant MegaFon PJSC - Internet Service Network Operation Center.
  • The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix, 81.23.15.0/24, comprising 256 addresses, with 0 IPv6 prefixes.
  • With only 2 observed neighbours, the network functions as a small, isolated corporate estate rather than a transit or access provider.
  • Traffic from this AS consists of office workers, editorial staff, and web endpoints for the publishing house's digital operations.

Notable

  • The registrant MegaFon PJSC differs from the announcer AIF AO ARGUMENTY I FAKTY, indicating the address space is leased from a major Russian telecommunications provider.
  • The inventory is minimal, consisting of a single /24 block, which fits the profile of a specific department or office location within a larger corporate infrastructure.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.

Interconnection

Peering at a glance

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

2 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS196695NetOne Rus JSC53
AS197453Biz Telecom LLC8

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
RURussian Federation1

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS51472
Registry name
AIF
Registrant
MEGAFON-RIPE-MNT
Abuse contact
ssviridenko@aif.ru
Registered
2010-09-01
Last changed
2026-10-07
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
1 authorising AS51472
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
Route objects
1 naming AS51472

Reputation

Classification and threat

Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.

Spamhaus DROP

Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.

No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.

Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.

FBI IC3

No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.

IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.

Elsewhere

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