Russian authorities have demanded ISPs ban the crypto industry’s go-to encrypted messenger service Telegram on Friday, April 13, just weeks after the project raised $1.7 bln in its ICO presale to support the development of its own Blockchain platform.
As various local news outlets report, the decision by the Tagansky District Court in Moscow means that the Kremlin’s internet monitoring organization Roskomnadzor will now force domestic ISPs to block access to Telegram “in the near future.”