Union of journalists of Kazakhstan summed up the results of Republican creative competition and named the award winners in FFA, 2018. Among other things, unexpectedly the award was given to Pavel Durov. This was reported on the official website of the Union of journalists of Kazakhstan.
The statement noted that the founder of social network Vkontakte and Creator of the messenger Telegram awarded in the nomination “Internet project” for “a principled stand against censorship and government interference in the free correspondence of citizens on the Internet”.
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