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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]
[8] [9] Telegram's appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was rejected. [10] In April 2020, the Government of Russia started using the blocked Telegram platform to spread information related to COVID-19 outbreak. On 18 June 2020 Roskomnadzor lifted its ban on Telegram after it 'agrees to help with extremism investigations'. [2] The court ruling ...
On 2 December 2014, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned jw.org. In August 2014, a number of websites were blocked as the war in Donbass developed, including the Ukrainian news site Glavnoe.ua , [ 27 ] a survey about the separation of the Caucasus from Russia [ 28 ] and numerous announcements and commentaries about the "march for ...
Durov noted the app refused to hand over “encryption keys” to Russia, resulting in a ban there. The app also was banned in Iran after the app refused to block channels used by protesters, he said.
Russia had previously tried to ban Telegram because it feared that national security information was being shared on the platform. But that hasn’t stopped Russians from using it.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest of ...
Telegram messenger played a major role in spreading the news about the protests and served as the primary platform to unify the protesters. [14] On 30 December, the Iranian government requested the closing of a Telegram channel called "Amad News" (AMAD standing for Agaahi, awareness, Mobaareze, combat & Democracy) operated by Roohollah Zam which called for use of handmade explosives against ...
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.