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Unlike other social media, we've made it crystal clear we're going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia,
Mikitani told Reuters in a Zoom interview during a visit to Kyiv last year
This action is necessary to prevent threats of the messaging app being used for terrorist and extremist purposes, recruiting citizens to commit crimes, selling drugs, and posting illegal information,
Roskomnadzor said in a statement
Roskomnadzor likely intended in part to test its ability to successfully disconnect Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia — Russian federal subjects with Muslim-majority populations and recent histories of instability — from services like Telegram in order to control the information space in the event of instability in the future,
it noted