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The supervisor explained this by the fact that the Telegram leadership expressed its readiness to counter terrorism and extremism
Roskomnadzor canceled the blocking of the Telegram messenger, which had been operating in Russia since April 2018. at. Such an agreement was reached with the Prosecutor General’s Office, the agency’s website reported.
Pavel Durov has repeatedly said that he is not going to make an exception to Russian law and to move away from the main principle of Telegram’s privacy policy - “not a byte of personal data to third parties”. Even after the messenger was included in the ARI registry, Durov categorically refused to comply with the “Spring Law”, calling it unconstitutional and technically unrealizable.
In May 2020, State Duma deputies Fedot Tumusov and Dmitry Ionin proposed legislatively allowing the messenger to be unblocked. In their opinion, telecom operators should be prohibited from blocking access to Internet services through which government agencies disseminate official information during the period of high alert or emergency. The Ministry of Communications did not support their initiative at that time.
Durov recalled that the messenger was blocked "under the auspices of the fight against terrorism."
“Although we didn’t even sympathize with terrorists then, since then we have come a long way to overcome these threats. During this time, methods have been improved to detect and remove extremist propaganda, and now the Telegram team has stopped tens of thousands of attempts to spread public calls for violence and terror monthly",
According to him, the mechanisms created to prevent terrorist attacks do not violate the confidentiality of user correspondence and the company's experience in dozens of countries showed that "the fight against terrorism and the right to privacy of personal correspondence do not exclude each other."
Recall that under Russian law, the Telegram is obliged to the FSB to provide encryption keys to the correspondence of all users.
Roskomnadzor canceled the blocking of the Telegram messenger, which had been operating in Russia since April 2018. at. Such an agreement was reached with the Prosecutor General’s Office, the agency’s website reported.
Pavel Durov has repeatedly said that he is not going to make an exception to Russian law and to move away from the main principle of Telegram’s privacy policy - “not a byte of personal data to third parties”. Even after the messenger was included in the ARI registry, Durov categorically refused to comply with the “Spring Law”, calling it unconstitutional and technically unrealizable.
In May 2020, State Duma deputies Fedot Tumusov and Dmitry Ionin proposed legislatively allowing the messenger to be unblocked. In their opinion, telecom operators should be prohibited from blocking access to Internet services through which government agencies disseminate official information during the period of high alert or emergency. The Ministry of Communications did not support their initiative at that time.
Durov recalled that the messenger was blocked "under the auspices of the fight against terrorism."
“Although we didn’t even sympathize with terrorists then, since then we have come a long way to overcome these threats. During this time, methods have been improved to detect and remove extremist propaganda, and now the Telegram team has stopped tens of thousands of attempts to spread public calls for violence and terror monthly",
According to him, the mechanisms created to prevent terrorist attacks do not violate the confidentiality of user correspondence and the company's experience in dozens of countries showed that "the fight against terrorism and the right to privacy of personal correspondence do not exclude each other."
Recall that under Russian law, the Telegram is obliged to the FSB to provide encryption keys to the correspondence of all users.