{"id":1025095,"date":"2026-07-31T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025095"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:24:00","slug":"telegrams-billionaire-founder-pavel-durov-has-faced-legal-woes-before-in-russia-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/telegrams-billionaire-founder-pavel-durov-has-faced-legal-woes-before-in-russia-and-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram&#8217;s billionaire founder Pavel Durov has faced legal woes before &#8211; in Russia and France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has repeatedly run into trouble with both the Kremlin and Western officials as he cast himself as a champion of free speech. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service, or FSB, accused him of aiding what it called terrorist activities. It also said it was adding Durov&#8217;s name to international wanted lists. <\/p>\n<p>The Russian-born Durov, 41, responded to the charges by posting an image of himself raising a middle finger on Telegram&#8217;s official account on X. He has denounced previous Kremlin attempts to restrict Telegram as an attack on freedom of expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has repeatedly run into trouble with both the Kremlin and Western officials as he cast himself as a champion of free speech. On Wednesday, Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service, or FSB, accused him of aiding what it called terrorist activities. It also said it was adding Durov&#8217;s name to international wanted lists. The Russian-born Durov, 41, responded to the charges by posting an image of himself raising a middle finger on Telegram&#8217;s official account on X. He has denounced previous Kremlin attempts to restrict Telegram as an attack on [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025095","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=1025095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025122,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025095\/revisions\/1025122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}