The biggest challenge in blocking WhatsApp and Telegram, the only Western messenging apps still allowed in Russia, is that the majority of the population uses them for day-to-day communication.
Pavel Durov had to flee Russia after resisting Putin’s influence on VK. That’s public information known to everyone who cares to spend a minute reading his Wikipedia article.
Pavel Durov had to flee Russia after resisting Putin’s influence on VK. That’s public information known to everyone who cares to spend a minute reading his Wikipedia article.
The world isn’t that simple. It’s possible that things could have changed since the regime formally took over VK.