A few weeks ago Telegram was blocked in Russia. The application and the government of the country have been having disputes for months. It all started when the messaging application refused to give access to the state's security services access to the encrypted messages of the users of the application. A decision that did not sit well with the Putin government.
Therefore, On April 13, the blockade of Telegram was definitively announced. After several previous attempts and threats, since last year. As a result, the application stopped working in its most important market. Leaving millions of users unable to use the application.
This decision has not sat down well with Telegram users. So, yesterday April 30 thousands of people, about 12.000 according to the latest estimates, came out to protest in the streets of Moscow. The objective of the protest, in addition to protesting the blocking of the application, was to ask that it be unblocked so that it can be used normally again.
The Libertarian Party of Russia was in charge of organizing this protest in the Russian capital. In fact, we were able to see several of the main opponents of the Russian government at this event. So the blockade of Telegram has also become something political.
The founder of Telegram thanked the support of the people who came out to protest yesterday in the streets of Moscow. In addition, he has commented that they will finance people to develop proxies or VPNs to bypass this application block. A challenge to the decision to block the application.
It remains to be seen if these protests in the Russian capital have any effect on this decision. Although at the moment, It seems that the millions of Telegram users in Russia will not be able to use the popular application courier. We hope to know more about this situation soon.