The decision to unblock Telegram taken in connection with the inability to block it, and also because of the active cooperation of representatives of the messenger on the fight against terrorism, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of communications of Russia Alexei Volin.
"the Decision (on the Telegram – ed.) was taken by Roskomnadzor, and the Prosecutor’s office against the court decision that is currently in connection with technical impossibility of blocking the Telegram and due to the fact that the representatives of the Telegram began to actively cooperate against terrorism and drug abuse in their environment, it was possible to cancel the decision about the lock from a purely technical point of view," said Wolin in the framework of the online discussion of "the New global political narrative: style and style 2020, the" club "Valdai".