{"id":1024803,"date":"2026-07-30T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024803"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:02:06","slug":"why-russia-charged-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-with-aiding-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/why-russia-charged-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-with-aiding-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with \u2018aiding terrorism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s main domestic security agency has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list, escalating the country\u2019s crackdown on the messaging platform amid tightening internet controls, according to AP. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Russian authorities continue restricting access to Telegram, one of the country\u2019s most widely used messaging apps, as part of broader efforts to strengthen state oversight of online platforms following the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s main domestic security agency has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list, escalating the country\u2019s crackdown on the messaging platform amid tightening internet controls, according to AP. The move comes as Russian authorities continue restricting access to Telegram, one of the country\u2019s most widely used messaging apps, as part of broader efforts to strengthen state oversight of online platforms following the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024803","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=1024803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024828,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024803\/revisions\/1024828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}