Roskomnadzor began blocking the Telegram messenger

The Federal Service sent the telecommunications operators an order to limit access to the service in accordance with the decision of the Tagansky court adopted on April 13

Roskomnadzor announced the launch of a procedure for blocking access to the Telegram service in Russia. The domain names and IP addresses of Telegram servers belonging to the service will now be entered into the register of blocked sites, and telecommunications operators are notified of the need to take measures to restrict access to them.

In accordance with the current rules, providers will have to restrict access to Telegram resources within 24 hours from the date of entering their data into the register of blocked sites, which is updated twice a day.

On April 13 Tagansky court on the suit of Roskomnadzor decided to immediately block Telegram in connection with the refusal of the service management to provide special services, as required by the Russian law, the keys to decipher the correspondence of its users. "We understand that the information that is distributed through Telegram can violate the law, be used by terrorist and extremist organizations, pose a threat to the security of the Russian Federation, the life and health of citizens, to the users of this network," the acting president said. Head of the Legal Department of Roskomnadzor Maria Smelyanskaya.

After the court ruled that Telegram was blocked, Alexander Zharov, the head of Roskomnadzor, said that unlocking would be possible only after the management of the service fulfilled the requirements of the law.

The FSB in mid-July 2017 required Telegram to provide her with keys for decoding messages. The company did not provide this information, and the founder of the service, Pavel Durov, stated that she would not comply with laws that are "incompatible with the protection of privacy and the privacy policy" of the messenger.

On March 20, 2018, the Supreme Court refused to satisfy Telegram's claim that the FSB's claim was unlawful. On the same day, Durov declared that he would not yield to threats.

Link: https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_me...794731ea5fa036