Russia charges Telegram founder Durov with facilitating terrorism

MOSCOW: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday (Jul 29) that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and had issued an international warrant for his arrest.The FSB said that the charges related to Telegram's failure to remove material "used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations within the Russian Federation."Soon afterwards, Telegram's official account on X posted an image of Durov making an obscene gesture with his middle finger. There was no other immediate comment from Durov or Telegram.Telegram, an encrypted messenger app founded in 2013, says it has more than 1 billion users, and is widely