{"id":636866,"date":"2026-07-30T20:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/telegrams-pavel-durov-responds-to-russias-terrorism-designation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:28:55","slug":"telegrams-pavel-durov-responds-to-russias-terrorism-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/telegrams-pavel-durov-responds-to-russias-terrorism-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram\u2019s Pavel Durov responds to Russia\u2019s terrorism designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/durov.png\" alt=\"Telegram\u2019s Pavel Durov responds to Russia\u2019s terrorism designation\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Telegram founder said Russia designated him a terrorist after he refused government demands for mass surveillance and censorship on the messaging platform.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Russian authorities designated him a \u201cterrorist\u201d after he refused government demands for mass surveillance and censorship on the messaging platform, responding publicly a day after Russia announced charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>In a Telegram post on Thursday, Durov also said Russia had barred him from \u201cpublishing information on the Internet,\u201d adding that authorities had \u201cgot confused about who can ban whom from the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Telegram, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/durov\/535\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pavel Durov<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/pavel-durov-responds-russia-terrorism-designation-cites-mass-surveillance-censorship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegram founder said Russia designated him a terrorist after he refused government demands for mass surveillance and censorship on the messaging platform. Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Russian authorities designated him a \u201cterrorist\u201d after he refused government demands for mass surveillance and censorship on the messaging platform, responding publicly a day after Russia announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-636866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}