Head of Roskomnadzor: Telegram blocked by 30%

“The degradation of Telegram is now 30%,” Alexander Zharov, head of Roskomnadzor, told The Bell. Not all subnets used by Telegram are blocked, he added. As of 17:00 Moscow time , the RKN blocked more than 18 million Google and Amazon IP addresses. This is done to prevent Telegram from bypassing the block.

• Roskomnadzor "continues to work with Google and Amazon," Zharov added, without specifying exactly what this work consists of. Earlier, he explained to Interfax that the RKN informed both companies that "a significant number of their IP addresses" were subject to blocking, and was waiting for their response.
• Zharov told The Bell that there are few claims from online services affected by the rolling blocking of IP addresses, and, according to him, there are no significant payment resources among the victims. All sites that are blocked by accident and report this to the RKN hotline are immediately unblocked, he assured.
• himself Pavel Durov , in today's post on his Telegram channel, said that Telegram does not observe a significant drop in the activity of Russian users. The founder of the Combot agency (places ads on Telegram) Fedor Skuratov, citing sources within the company, said that the fall in the Russian Telegram audience was 5% yesterday.

Svetlana Reiter