Glasses and registrar

The creator of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov agreed to provide data for the registration of the service in the register of information distribution organizers. He wrote about this on his VK page.

According to Durov, the data-owner of the messenger is available in open sources. "If on this (registration. - Ed.) The desires of the regulator are really limited, I have no objections to the use of these data for registration of Telegram Messenger LLP in the register of information distribution organizers, but we will not fulfill the anti -constitutional and not implemented" Yarovaya Law ", as well as other laws that are incompatible with the protection of private life and the Telegram confidentiality policy," - Durov emphasized.

Durov noted that the Telegram team "does not take on any additional obligations in the registry" and can promise Russian officials "only the level of cooperation that demonstrates in all other countries."

“If Telegram is really blocked in Russia, then this will not happen because we refused to provide data on our company,” concludes the creator of the messenger.

Meanwhile, the head of the RKN, Alexander Zharov, confirming that "Telegram began working in the legal field of the Russian Federation," noted : "As for the laws of Russia, they are binding on all companies working in Russian jurisdiction."

Earlier on Wednesday it became known that Internet users began to send notifications to Roskomnadzor about the registration of Telegram in the register. According to the law, only its developers can register the messenger, so the department regarded such actions as "providing obviously inaccurate information."

According to the "Law of Yarovoy" company, the owners of messengers are required to register in Russia as "organizers of the dissemination of information" and, at the request of the FSB, provide it with messages of message encryption. Telegram is still not registered in this capacity. The administration of the messenger said: "Not a single government or special service in the world has yet received a bit of information from us. It will always be so."

On June 23, the head of the RKN Alexander Zharov made an open letter to the owner of Telegram Pavel Durov, urging him to register a messenger in accordance with the Yarovaya Law and threatening otherwise by blocking the resource. Later on the same day, Zharov said that Durov ignores user safety and provides opportunities for communicating with terrorists and other criminals.

Durov of the prosecution shallow, saying that only from the beginning of June the service has blocked more than 5 thousand public channels and groups in which terrorism was promoted. He called his messenger "neutral in relation to Russia."

On June 25, Zharov warned that the time before the Telegram blocking is calculated days .

On Monday , the FSB said that the organizers and participants of the April attack in the St. Petersburg metro used Telegram. In general, they noticed in the special services, terrorists maintain communication through various Internet mixers with encryption, but Telegram is most popular, since it provides especially reliable encryption.

On the same day, Telegram presented users with a means of bypassing blocking .