The World Reacts To Telegram Ban In Russia


A Moscow court on Friday ordered that access to the Telegram messenger service should be blocked in Russia after months of battles with the media regulator, Roskomnadzor.
The country’s main security agency, FSB, also claim that Telegram is the messenger of choice for international terrorist organisations in Russia.

However, Telegram’s lawyer Pavel Chikov, said the official attempt to stop the app being used in Russia was without justification.
“The FSB’s requirements to provide access to private conversations of users are unconstitutional, baseless, which cannot be fulfilled technically and legally,” Chikov said.

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging service that launched in 2013. The chat app presently have 200 million active users. Here’s How The World Is Reacting:


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