{"id":1001343,"date":"2026-04-06T07:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001343"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:52:11","slug":"telegrams-durov-says-russia-triggered-payment-system-problem-by-blocking-vpns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/06\/telegrams-durov-says-russia-triggered-payment-system-problem-by-blocking-vpns\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram&#8217;s Durov says Russia triggered payment system problem by blocking VPNs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram&#8217;s billionaire founder, Pavel Durov, said on Saturday that Russia&#8217;s attempt to block virtual private networks (VPN) triggered a problem with a domestic payment \u200csystem, adding \u2060that tens \u2060of millions of Russians were resisting digital controls. <\/p>\n<p>Russia has repeatedly blocked mobile internet and \u200bgranted sweeping powers to cut off mass communications while jamming messenger services and VPNs in what \u200bdiplomats have called a &#8220;great crackdown&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram&#8217;s billionaire founder, Pavel Durov, said on Saturday that Russia&#8217;s attempt to block virtual private networks (VPN) triggered a problem with a domestic payment \u200csystem, adding \u2060that tens \u2060of millions of Russians were resisting digital controls. Russia has repeatedly blocked mobile internet and \u200bgranted sweeping powers to cut off mass communications while jamming messenger services and VPNs in what \u200bdiplomats have called a &#8220;great crackdown&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}