Russia is not going to ban foreign messengers, a representative of the highest power in Moscow has indicated amid efforts to ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered to gain control over foreign messengers, specifically WhatsApp and Telegram, ...

Russia is planning to phase out WhatsApp for government use by introducing its messaging app called MAX. Developed by ...

Russian tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov and other sources have rejected media reports that Telegram is setting up a branch in ...

Russia and Ukraine again exchanged a series of major overnight drone strikes as the two sides maneuvered ahead of a possible ...

Russians will face fines if they search online for "extremist" content under a new law that tightens censorship and could ...

But Telegram’s Russia crisis is not the first time that an app banned by the Russian government has had to rely on third-party support to navigate its position with users.

Russia banned Telegram following 2017 terrorist attack. Russia officially banned Telegram on April 13, 2018. The ban came after Telegram refused to cooperate with Russia's main intelligence ...

The Telegram encrypted messaging app must be blocked in Russia, a court ruled today after the cloud-based service declined to grant government access.

Telegram has been blocked in Russia using a brute method that blocks Google and Amazon web services, which in turn has affected many major online services in the country.