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Telegram Founder Durov Listed as "Terrorist" by Russia for Refusing to Comply with Mass Surveillance

2026.07.31 - 01:06
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TechFlow reports, on July 31, Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov (@durov) revealed in a post that the Russian government has listed him as a "terrorist" because he refused to comply with Russian demands for mass surveillance and content censorship on Telegram. According to relevant Russian laws, Durov is prohibited from "publishing any information on the Internet".

Durov responded to this, stating: "Russian officials clearly don't understand who can kick whom off the Internet."

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