{"id":991691,"date":"2026-02-12T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991691"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:11:59","slug":"russia-restricts-telegram-in-a-bid-to-move-citizens-to-state-owned-option-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/russia-restricts-telegram-in-a-bid-to-move-citizens-to-state-owned-option-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia restricts Telegram in a bid to move citizens to state-owned option; here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian officials have now started restricting access to Telegram, one of Moscow&#8217;s most popular social media platforms. This comes as the government tries to push citizens towards some of the state-owned alternatives to foreign tech platforms, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (local time), the Russian government announced that it is restricting access to Telegram for the &#8220;protection of Russian citizens&#8221;, and accused the app of refusing to block content which authorities considered &#8220;criminal and terrorist.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian officials have now started restricting access to Telegram, one of Moscow&#8217;s most popular social media platforms. This comes as the government tries to push citizens towards some of the state-owned alternatives to foreign tech platforms, CNN reported. On Tuesday (local time), the Russian government announced that it is restricting access to Telegram for the &#8220;protection of Russian citizens&#8221;, and accused the app of refusing to block content which authorities considered &#8220;criminal and terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991691","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}