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IP address unblocked Roskomnadzor.
Roskomnadzor removed from blocking another 8 million IP addresses that were previously entered in the register of banned sites because of the Telegram.
As reported the press service of the Ministry reported to journalists the information Agency “Interfax” unlocked was part of the Amazon subnets and a single subnet hosting provider Online SAS. Also Roskomnadzor explained that these subnets are no longer used Telegram for the implementation of activities on the territory of Russia.
Lock Telegram in Russia, commenced on 16 April 2018 on the basis of a court decision handed down on April 13. In an attempt to limit Telegram, Roskomnadzor began to “beat the squares” at the peak of the number of blocked IP addresses reached about 18 million.
Among the “hit by the” massively present network addresses, Google and Amazon. The interruptions complained users messenger Viber, music service Spotify, social network of Classmates, various online games, delivery services and taxis, as well as many others not implicated in Telegram services.
Gradually Roskomnadzor began to exclude certain subnets from the lock, including Google and Amazon. According to the site usher2.club, which keeps track of the number of actual IP addresses from the discharge of Roskomnadzor, at the time of writing the news the number of blocked IP addresses has dropped to approximately 3.7 million