{"id":991766,"date":"2026-02-13T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991766"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:31:12","slug":"russia-has-blocked-whatsapp-for-failing-to-comply-with-local-laws-kremlin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/russia-has-blocked-whatsapp-for-failing-to-comply-with-local-laws-kremlin-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has blocked WhatsApp for failing to comply with local laws, Kremlin says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has decided to block the popular messaging platform WhatsApp for allegedly failing to comply with Russian legislation, the Kremlin notified on Thursday, according to news agency AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a decision was indeed made and implemented,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked about the reported ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has decided to block the popular messaging platform WhatsApp for allegedly failing to comply with Russian legislation, the Kremlin notified on Thursday, according to news agency AFP. &#8220;Such a decision was indeed made and implemented,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked about the reported ban.<\/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-991766","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\/991766","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=991766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}