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Russia Introduces Full Telegram Ban Nationwide

Summary by Kyiv Post
Russian authorities have fully blocked the social media platform nationwide, cutting access on both mobile and fixed internet networks as part of tighter controls on digital communication.

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Chat app: With a 100 percent outage rate, the Telegram chat app is unusable in Russia. Now the authorities are hunting down users and providers of…

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Russian authorities on Friday almost completely blocked the Telegram messaging platform. The level of anomalies indicating that Telegram was blocked reached 100% during the last working day, the Agentstvo server reported. According to the portal, Russian authorities are now blocking Telegram even more strictly than Western messaging apps WhatsApp or Signal.

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The level of anomalies when entering Telegram on Friday morning reached 95%. This is the maximum share of anomalies since the start of a new tightening of the restriction on the operation of the messenger in Russia on March 20. These indicators may indicate that Pavel Durov's messenger is already blocked more strongly than WhatsApp and Signal.

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RTVI broke the news in Moscow, Russian Federation (the) on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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