“Used by enemies”: Telegram closed in Dagestan and Chechnya

The Messaging Service Telegram was blocked in the Russian partial republics of Dagestan and Chechnya at the weekend. The reports the state Russian news agency TASS And adds that the step on the recommendation of the law enforcement authorities there was. As a reason, the Dagestan government said that the messenger was often used “by our enemies”. Anti -Semitic riots at Makhachkala Airport are mentioned as an example, which in autumn 2023 occurred after calls for the pogrom that were spread through Telegram.

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Government recommends switching to VK

According to the report, Dagestan's Minister for Digital Development did not exclude Telegram activated at a later date. At the same time, however, he recommended the change to an alternative and mentioned the VK, popular in Russia. On Telegram there were always disturbances in several regions of the North Caucasus, added Tass. The messenger was founded in Russia, but is now officially operated from Dubai. Since the telegram founder Pawel Durow was temporarily arrested in Paris at the end of August, the service has worked significantly better with western authorities.

The incident, which has now been made to justify the lock of Telegestan and Chechnya, is about Massive anti -Semitic riots at Machhathatzkala Airport in Dagestan. A crowd had entered the airport when a plane from Israel had landed there. Before that, rumors had been spread that they were refugees from the country that had become the destination of an unprecedented attack by the terrorist organization Hamas a few days earlier. Dozens of people were injured, security forces took over the airport. Telegram has not yet commented on the step.