Roskomnadzor began sending notifications about the upcoming blocking to the owners of proxy servers that allow bypassing the blocking of Telegram. This was announced by the head of the international group "Agora" Pavel Chikov, whose lawyers represent the interests of the messenger.

According to Chikov, Roskomnadzor uses calls for riots and extremist activities as the basis for blocking.

proxy servers, in particular, reported receiving warnings from Roskomnadzor The owners of TgProxy and Vee Security .

The Prosecutor General's Office can seek to block sites without trial if they find calls for mass riots, extremist activities and uncoordinated actions there. Including the department can block websites or individual pages for publishing instructions on how to bypass blocking.
On April 16, Roskomnadzor blocked Telegram in Russia based on the decision of the Tagansky Court of Moscow. The reason for the lawsuit was the refusal of the messenger to transfer the encryption keys from users' correspondence to the FSB.
On the evening of April 16, about 800,000 IP addresses of the Amazon hosting provider were entered into the register of banned sites. Roskomnadzor confirmed that this was done in connection with the blocking of Telegram. Also, more than a million Google IP addresses were included in the register of banned sites.
In connection with the blocking of Amazon IP addresses, a number of Russian sites were blocked, in particular, Skyeng online English school, ptichka.moscow courier service and GiveMe.ru online store .

Roskomnadzor warned proxy servers about the upcoming blocking