{"id":994548,"date":"2026-02-25T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994548"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:27:36","slug":"russia-opens-criminal-investigation-against-telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/russia-opens-criminal-investigation-against-telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia opens criminal investigation against Telegram app founder Pavel Durov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, said Tuesday that the Russian government had opened a criminal investigation against him on charges of \u201caiding terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durov, who was born and began his career in Russia, accused Moscow of fabricating pretexts to restrict access by Russians to the Telegram service as part of an attempt to \u201csuppress the right to privacy and free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, said Tuesday that the Russian government had opened a criminal investigation against him on charges of \u201caiding terrorism.\u201d Durov, who was born and began his career in Russia, accused Moscow of fabricating pretexts to restrict access by Russians to the Telegram service as part of an attempt to \u201csuppress the right to privacy and free speech.\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":[54,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994548","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=994548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}