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Twitter targeted by lawsuit for non compliance with Russian data-localization law

February 25, 2019

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, initiated today a lawsuit against Twitter for failing to provide information about its compliance with the Russian data-localization law. The US microblogging platform is now facing an administrative fine of 5,000 rubles ($764 at the current exchange rate). Ultimately Twitter, should it violate the law, could be blocked …

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With 40% of e-merchants’ sales revenues, Russian social commerce generates $9 billion yearly

February 4, 2019

No less than 39 million buyers and 22 million sellers – both companies (B2C) and individuals (C2C) – are involved in social commerce, according to a study released last month by Yandex.Checkout and Data Insight. The research reveals the importance of social channels in the Russian e-commerce space, accounting for no less than 40% of …

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Twitter suspends account that ‘impersonated’ Putin, issuing tweets in English

December 2, 2018

Twitter has suspended an account that it said had been impersonating Russian President Vladimir Putin. The account tweeted in the English language and had attracted 1 million followers before it was shut down. Twitter said the page, using the handle @putinRF_eng, was a fraud that represented itself as an official government site. The social-networking service said …

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How the Kremlin conquered Russia’s Telegram channels

November 30, 2018

Proekt.Media, a new independent online publication which claims to cover even “complex and dangerous topics,” has inquired about “how the authorities turned Telegram into television” by colonizing and buying out the medium. According to journalists Mikhail Rubin and Roman, Kremlin officials were initially worried about the influence of Telegram channels on Russia’s political system. In late …

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Telegram agrees to share some user data with governments “to fight terrorism”

August 17, 2019

The instant messenger Telegram has rewritten its privacy policy, and Russians are raising their eyebrows at Section 8.3, where the network now says it may disclose users’ IP addresses and phone numbers “to the relevant authorities,” if it “receives a court order [confirming] that you’re a terror suspect.” Telegram says it’s yet to surrender any …

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Supreme Court rejects Telegram’s appeal over FSB’s demands to access users messages

August 10, 2018

The Russian Supreme Court has upheld demands from the Federal Security Service (FSB) that Telegram provide encryption keys to access the content of user messages, the Interfax news agency reported this morning. Confirmed previous legal decisions, the Supreme Court, in particular, has supported an FSB argument which establishes a distinction between receiving the means to decipher encoded content, and …

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Telegram calls off public token sale after raising $1.7 billion in private pre-sale

May 7, 2018

The popular messaging app brought in so much money from a small group of private investors that it is calling off a planned sale of cryptocurrency to the wider investing public, according to a person familiar with the matter. Telegram Group Inc. has pulled in $1.7 billion by selling newly created cryptocurrency to fewer than …

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Russia’s crackdown on Telegram disrupts Google services across the country

April 23, 2018

On April 23, Russian Internet users reported mass disruptions to almost all services offered by Google — from the main search engine to the company’s reCAPTCHA (which distinguishes human users from bots). The outages started after Russia’s federal censor added another 118 Google IP addresses to the country’s Internet blacklist over the weekend. After a wave …

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Why Russia is banning Telegram: FSB concerned by cryptocurrency project, not message encryption

April 20, 2018

The official reason for banning Telegram in Russia – its refusal to let the secret service decipher user messages, as required by Russian law, to “prevent terrorism” – might not be the real one. Revealed today by the Russian business daily RBC, an informal note written by an employee of the Federal Security Service (FSB), …

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Mail.Ru’s TamTam positions itself to replace Telegram in Russia

April 19, 2018

A few days before the Russian authorities started blocking access to Telegram, advertisements for another chat app started appearing in major Russian newspapers and even on several Telegram channels. The service, dubbed ‘TamTam,’ touts itself as a “complete copy of Telegram” and “another messenger with channels,” positioning itself to replace Telegram in Russia.  TamTam is owned …

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Russia battles to block access to Telegram; Durov pledges millions of dollars to “support Internet freedoms”

April 19, 2018

Russia’s telecom and Internet regulator Roskomnadzor stated on Monday that it requested telecom operators to block access to Telegram, following a court decision from last week. In an interview with Russian business daily Vedomosti on Monday, Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov said the regulator had first blocked 9,000 Telegram IP addresses. However, blocking access to the service did not …

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Moscow court rules to block access to Telegram from Russia “immediately”

December 3, 2018

Today the Tagansky District Court in Moscow ruled to block “immediately” access to instant messenger Telegram from Russia, following its refusal to provide remote access to their systems to  the FSB. Adopted in 2016, a new Russian legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) requires messenger apps and other “organizers of information distribution” to add additional …

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