Russia lifts ban on Telegram

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 19 Jun 2020 by Alex Teddy
On June 18 Moscow announced that its 2 year ban on messaging service Telegram is over. The attempt to block it mostly failed. This might explain the decision. Roskomnadzor (the state communications regulator) said that the decision was because the owner Pavel Durov is now willing to co-operate on terrorism and extremism. Telegram will hand over information on suspects. The Prosecutor-General has agreed to the move. The state has banned disseminating child pornography or material promoting suicide or drugs. The argument was that these were accessible through Telegram. Telegram is encrypted and the company says it is unable to decrypt messages. The FSB wanted access to messages sent on Telegram. The FSB said terrorists used Telegram to plan a bomb attack.When Roskomnadzor blocked Telegram in 2018 it accidentally blocked several other services and blacklisted millions of other IP addresses. Telegram was still used by some Russian politicians and bureaucrats such as Dmitry Peskov after the ban.

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