{"id":955507,"date":"2025-08-16T10:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955507"},"modified":"2025-08-16T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:58:05","slug":"russia-blocks-whatsapp-telegram-calls-amid-security-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/russia-blocks-whatsapp-telegram-calls-amid-security-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks WhatsApp, Telegram calls amid security dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has begun restricting voice calls on Telegram and WhatsApp, accusing the foreign-owned messaging platforms of failing to cooperate with law enforcement in fraud and terrorism investigations, the country\u2019s digital development ministry said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The move marks the latest escalation in Moscow\u2019s long-running tensions with global tech companies over content regulation and data storage. The dispute has sharpened since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with critics accusing the Kremlin of seeking greater control over the domestic internet space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has begun restricting voice calls on Telegram and WhatsApp, accusing the foreign-owned messaging platforms of failing to cooperate with law enforcement in fraud and terrorism investigations, the country\u2019s digital development ministry said on Wednesday. The move marks the latest escalation in Moscow\u2019s long-running tensions with global tech companies over content regulation and data storage. The dispute has sharpened since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with critics accusing the Kremlin of seeking greater control over the domestic internet space.<\/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-955507","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\/955507","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=955507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}