Pavel Durov declared more "freedom of speech" in the Russian Federation than in Europe

On December 28, propaganda Russian Telegram channels were blocked. At the same time, services such as Discord and YouTube were blocked in Russia. Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram Social Network, stated that Russian users of messengers allegedly have more freedom than European ones. He wrote about it on his channel. Durov stated that "access to some Russian media was restricted to the EU in accordance with DSA/sanctions.

" He states that "all Western media channels Telegram remain freely available in Russia. " "Who would have thought that in 2025 Russian users of Telegram would enjoy greater freedom than European ones?" Durov said, who in 2014 lost his child in 2014 because of the Russian authorities: the social network "VKontakte". Now Pavel Durov is traveling the world, but he no longer returned to Russia. In addition to Russian citizenship, Durov has citizenship of St. Kitts and Nevis, the UAE and France.

We will remind, on December 28 Telegram blocked the propaganda Russian channels in the European Union, including RIA news, NTV, Russia-24, Izvestia, Russian newspaper and the first channel. At the same time, not channels were blocked in Russia, but services and social networks. The process began after a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into Ukraine. The Russian edition of "Versta" notes that Roskomnadzor has blocked 120. 5 thousand resources - 3.

6 times more than in 2023. In addition to the RCC, the "unspecified body" is engaged in censorship blocks (by this name, as a rule, the Prosecutor General's Office is usually hidden). This year, it blocked 1. 5 times more resources than in 2023, and 26 times more than in 2022. In 2024, YouTube, Viber, Discord were blocked. Previously blocked Instagram and Facebook.