The Prosecutor General’s office did not give permission to block millions of IP addresses to block access to Telegram messenger in Russia. About this informed the newspaper “Vedomosti” with reference to the document of the Prosecutor General, submitted to Tagansky court of Moscow.
The Agency has put forward an objection in response to the administrative claim of OOO “Living picture” to Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General’s office, which is currently addressed in Tagansky court.
“Living picture” is behind the website posterslegends.com. The company asked the court to declare illegal actions of Roskomnadzor, which led to blocking services. Also, the plaintiff demands to oblige Roskomnadzor to restore access to the site in Russia.
We will remind, 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 “came under attack” EN masse attended the network address 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