![]() As of, this figure is currently 10.9 million. On 30 April, the number of blocked IP addresses was 14.6 million. The majority of the blocked addresses are owned by international Internet companies, including Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Between 16-18 April 2018, almost 20 million Internet Protocol (IP) addresses were ordered to be blocked by Roskomnadzor as it attempted to restrict access to Telegram.On 13 April 2018, Moscow’s Tagansky District Court granted Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, its request to block access to Telegram on the grounds that the company had not complied with a 2017 order to provide decryption keys to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Since then, the actions taken by the Russian authorities to restrict access to Telegram have caused mass Internet disruption, including: ![]() Lastly, we call on Internet companies to resist unfounded and extra-legal orders that violate their users’ rights. We also call the United Nations (UN), the Council of Europe (CoE), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union (EU), the United States and other concerned governments to challenge Russia’s actions and uphold the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and privacy online as well as offline. ![]() ![]() We call on Russia to stop blocking Telegram and cease its relentless attacks on Internet freedom more broadly. We, the undersigned 53 international and Russian human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram, which have resulted in extensive violations of freedom of expression and access to information, including mass collateral website blocking. ![]()
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