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Pavel Durov, one of the founders of Telegram, supported the action, but asked that the participants gather up the paper airplanes within an hour after the launch. [32] On April 30, 2018, in the center of Moscow, an action was held in support of Telegram in Russia as a result of its blocking. More than 12,000 people participated.
Russia began to block access to Telegram in 2018. The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram there.
Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post. [46] [47] As of August 2015, 4 Wikipedia articles remain blocked in Russia, and more than 25 were blocked for some time. Most of these articles are related to drugs and suicide.
Telegram Messenger said it does not know why fines against it and other major technology companies were dropped in Russia, but said it has no assets, offices or employees there.
The European Court of Human Rights made a ruling in a long-running case involving Telegram's encrypted messaging. The fight to protect encryption just got a boost in a ruling about Telegram and Russia
Carlson noted that Durov was forced to leave Russia due to pressure from the authorities, and claimed that his arrest in France was an attempt by Western states to restrict independent platforms such as Telegram due to his claiming that he refused to censor information for the sake of governments and intelligence agencies.
Russia began blocking Telegram in 2018 after the app refused to comply with a court order granting state security services access to its users' encrypted messages.