Communications watchdog of Russia stated that it had demanded Apple to support in blocking the famous messaging app Telegram which has been barred in the country for rejecting to provide the access to security services for private conversations. Roskomnadzor told that it had demanded that Apple both block push warnings for Telegram users in Russia, which would unable the users to receive warnings for new messages and consequently reduce it less suitable, as well as no elongated mark it existing for download in the country.

“In order to avoid possible action by Roskomnadzor for violations of the functioning of the above-mentioned Apple Inc. service, we ask you to inform us as soon as possible about your company’s further actions to resolve the problematic issue,” said the regulator.

The director of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov later described the Russian news organization Interfax that Apple had the duration of one month to answer and failed to hazard about what activities it could perhaps take in contradiction of the US firm if it declined to fulfill.

A Moscow court blocked the famous app previous month which was following an extensive-running conflict between authorities and Telegram, which has a status for protected encrypted communications, as Moscow drives to escalate surveillance of internet actions. Maverick Russian programmer, Pavel Durov generated the app, who has long told he will refuse any effort by the security services of the country to gain backdoor acquire to the app.

The free app that permits individuals exchanging messages, stickers, photos and videos in different groups of up to 5,000 individual has concerned more than two hundred million users because it launched by Durov and his brother Nikolai. However, it has approved it has merely prospered in upsetting its actions by fifteen to thirty percent following the court presiding Roskomnadzor has stimulated to block the working of Telegram.

It has also finished up troublemaking other facilities, with Zharov last week condemning Telegram of employing other online servers as “human shields”. Russian news agencies Zharov was merely cited as describing the ban in contradiction of Telegram was warranted as it had been used in the strategy of all the modern terror threats across the world.

Roskomnadzor stated the TASS state news agency on Monday that negotiations were still ongoing with Google about executing the ban.

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