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“Telegram degradation is now 30%.” The head of Roskomnadzor reported on the progress of blocking the messenger
The head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov said that "the degradation of Telegram is now 30%." This is reported by The Bell on the evening of April 17.
Not all subnets used by Telegram are blocked, he added.
- The Telegram messenger has been blocked in Russia since April 16. Roskomnadzor asked the court to authorize the blocking due to the messenger's refusal to issue the FSB encryption keys from users' correspondence.
- Telegram uses built-in methods to bypass blocking - for many users, the application continues to work without VPN and other external methods.
- In an attempt to block access to the messenger, on April 16-17, Roskomnadzor blocked more than 16 million Amazon and Google IP addresses that Telegram uses to bypass blocking. After that, users of various services that also use these addresses began to complain about failures in their work.