Lock Telegram in Russia by the decision of the court, however, the Russians actually stopped using them. This was stated press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.
He commented on the initiative of deputies of the State Duma about the weakening of the blocking-mode of the service.
Indeed, there is a situation de facto and de jure. We believe the de jure situation, we have to do this.
Indeed, the de facto situation is different, — quoted Peskov RIA Novosti.
However, a Kremlin spokesman refused to evaluate the initiative of parliamentarians.
Roskomnadzor from April 2018 block Telegram in the court due to the failure of the messenger to convey the FSB encryption keys. However, in two years, the Ministry has not been able to completely restrict access to the service, and it is still available to users.
Earlier NEWS.ru wrote that deputies from “Fair Russia” Dmitry Jonas and Fedot Tumusov offered partially cancel lock Telegram. According to them, it’s important to do at least in the period of modes of alert or emergency.
The authors indicated that further declaratory lock messenger deals damage not to its development and prestige of state power in Russia. They also recalled that the Internet service began to carry out socially significant function — including using it in the context of the epidemic of the coronavirus authorities to inform citizens about the development of the situation.
