Roskomnadzor promised to unlock the Telegram messenger

Roskomnadzor announced that the Telegram messenger in Russia would unlock the Telegram messenger. This was reported on the website of the department.

According to the text of the message, an unlock agreement has been reached with the Prosecutor General. "We positively evaluate the readiness to counteract terrorism and extremism expressed by the founder of telegrams," the service said in a statement.

Access to the service was blocked by court decision in April 2018. This happened after the developers refused to provide the FSB codes to decipher user correspondence.

However, the blocking was not actually performed. The messenger was openly used by state structures and officials. On June 4, the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov called on the country's authorities to abandon the messenger blocking, specifying that 30 million people use it in Russia.

Durov said that the messenger learned to detect and remove extremist propaganda, without violating the right of users to the secret of correspondence.

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