Users of a blocked messenger are currently discussing his availability in different cities of Russia, and are also divided by ways of bypassing blocking. Roskomnadzor announced his decision of the Tagansky District Court to restrict access on the territory of Russia to the Internet resources of the organizer of information disseminating information on the Internet Telegram Messenger Limited Liabolyity Partnership.

The court recognized the civil activist Oksana Podun to be guilty of arousing hatred or enmity on the grounds of nationality, origin and attitude to religion (part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In Krasnoyarsk, the Soviet District Court sentenced to two years conditionally to the nurse Oksana Podun for several pictures in a closed album on her VKontakte page.

The ministry has posted a draft federal law for public discussion, proposing to block information containing calls for refusal of HIV treatment and propaganda of so-called HIV dissidence.