The Russian Government went all crazy on Telegram Messenger back in April, blocking almost 2M IP addresses associates with its application. Now the Hacker News tells us that Russia’s Communications Regulator, Roskomnadzor, “has threatened Apple to face the consequences if the company does not remove secure messaging app Telegram from its App Store.” The report on the Russian Govt. site the article refers to is not reachable any longer. It will be interesting to see if this is true at all, and if so, what becomes of it. Apple has a history of telling the US Govt. to stuff it when it comes to its customers’ privacy, what will be Apple’s play in Russia?



So in an effort to entirely ban Telegram, state watchdog Roskomnadzor reportedly sent a legally binding letter to Apple asking it to remove the app from its Russian App Store and block it from sending push notifications to local users who have already downloaded the app.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Russia Hates Telegram on the Apple App Store