(FILES) This file photo taken on April 6, 2018 in Moscow shows a person posing while holding a smartphone with the Telegram messenger application on display. A Moscow court on April 13, 2018 ruled to block the popular messaging app Telegram in Russia, after it refused to give state security services access to private conversations, an AFP reporter at the court said. / AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV
MOSCOW: Russia's state communications regulator on April 17 said it had blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon, saying they were being used by the Telegram messaging service which Moscow moved to ban this week.
Russia's Roskomnadzor watchdog began blocking Telegram, a messaging service popular in Russia, on Monday after it refused to comply with a court order to grant state security services access to its users' encrypted messages.
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