Russia will lift its almost two years ban on Telegram, Reuters reports. Russia will lift its ban. Roskomnadzor, Telecommunications Watchdog of the country, said the Company has demonstrated its "will to help fight terrorism."
"Roskomnadzor has dropped his requests in accordance with Russia's Attorney General to restrict access to the Telegram Messager," the Agency said in a statement.
In April 2018, a Russian court blocked the app when Telegram refused to share Roskomnadzor with its encryption keys – which is a means to access data from the users. Telegram is a terrorist organization's use history.
Their denial of access to encryption keys was in breach of Russian anti-terrorism laws, which allow messaging services to provide authorities with access to decryption messages. Pavel Durov, CEO Pavel Telegram, stated that in 2018 'privacy should not be sold, and human rights should not be affected by fear or greed.'
The interdiction was largely inadequate and led to a disorderly backward movement, as Amazon and Google cloud platforms blocked 15.8 million IPs by ISPs, affecting Russia's companies using these services. Russland has also banned internet anonymizers and VPN services, according to the Independent, which Telegram may have used to mask traffic.
Many Russia and Russian agencies continued their search for ways to use Telegram.
Durov said authorities in Russia should lift their prohibition on Russian users accessing a "more comfortable" service earlier this month. Durov said the company improved its tools for detecting and deleting extremist content on the platform.
In April Telegram said it had reached an active user base of 400 million a month, doubling the user base in just the last two years.
