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February 12, 2026
Court's 2018 decision to block Telegram still not overturned
The executives of the messenger appealed against the ruling, but the plea was dismissed
TL;DR
- The Moscow Tagansky Court's 2018 decision to block Telegram remains in effect.
- The block was imposed because Telegram failed to provide user message decryption keys to the FSB.
- Telegram argued that complying with the decryption key demand was technically impossible.
- Appeals against the court's decision were filed and subsequently dismissed.
- Telecom operators began blocking the service in April 2018.
- Telegram attempted to bypass the block by changing IP addresses.
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