The Prosecutor General’s Office stated that it did not require blocking the t.me domain

The Prosecutor General’s Office commented on the temporary blocking of the short links domain of the Telegram t.me messenger by Roskomnadzor. The department claims that it did not require this. Wherein, as seen of the records already removed from the Roskomnadzor registry, access was limited not to the domain, but to individual records, which led to the blocking of all pages.

“The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office did not send a request to block the t.me domain,” a representative of the department told reporters (quoted by Interfax).

On the evening of October 29, Roskomnadzor restricted access to t.me; an entry in its registry stated that the decision was made at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Blocked after a few hours was removedand Roskomnadzor declaredthat in Russia “currently” the work of Telegram will not be limited.

As follows from the monitoring of the blocking of the human rights project Roskomsvoboda, the Prosecutor General’s Office decided to restrict access not to the t.me domain itself, but to three records in different Telegram channels about copies of the video of the Armed Forces of Ukraine calling on the Russian military to surrender. Since the Telegram web interface uses a secure connection (HTTPS), due to the blocking of individual posts, all links to t.me stopped working, but they are available in the application.

Leonid Uvarchev