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IIRC Telegram is banned in Russia, and its CEO is not in good terms with the Russian government.

It is not only not banned but "found a compromise" and agreed to co-operate with FSB according to Russian MP (google translated article from tjournal.ru): https://tjournal-ru.translate.goog/news/562296-durov-nashel-...

According to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia has no intention to invade Ukraine

In this case we have evidence. Telegram is not banned in Russia, and now we have an explanation about why.

Telegram is very comfy in Russia (as in good luck finding a non-user). It also has no revenue stream. I put 2 and 2 together.

They tried in 2018, but couldn't pull it off. It's unclear what Telegram agreed to in 2020 to get officially unblocked though.

>It's unclear what Telegram agreed to in 2020 to get officially unblocked though.

Most likely implementing FSB backdoors.

Not sure why you're down-voted for stating out the facts as they are.

Because some people do not like pesky facts when those interfere with the narrative?