WhatsApp in Russia

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2025

The court rejected the claim of "citizens" against Roskomnadzor and Ministry of Digital Development after the slowdown of the WhatsApp application in Russia

After a significant slowdown in the operation of the Whatsapp application in Russia, an administrative lawsuit was filed with the Tagansky Court of Moscow on December 23, 2025 from 42 Telegram and WhatsApp users against Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Digital Development. It was later reported that 106 people filed the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs asked to declare illegal restrictions on calls in instant messengers, believing that they violate the rights of citizens to freedom of information, privacy of communications and privacy.

The plaintiffs drew attention to the fact that the main channels through which frauds are committed, according to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, are mobile calls and SMS, and blocking instant messengers is ineffective. They offer alternative protections, including optional blocking for those who wish.

On December 29, 2025, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow terminated the proceedings. The court noted that the plaintiffs did not prove the right to represent the interests of all messenger users.

Roskomnadzor began a complete blocking of WhatsApp

In November 2025, representatives of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media announced the possibility of completely blocking the WhatsApp messenger in Russia. The reason was the continuing, in the opinion of the department, violations by the service of the requirements of Russian legislation.

The press service of Roskomnadzor explained that restrictive measures are being introduced in stages in connection with the failure of the messenger belonging to the Meta corporation banned in Russia to comply with the norms aimed at countering criminal activity. The statement of the department claims that the platform is used to organize terrorist attacks, recruit their perpetrators, fraudulent and other crimes against citizens of the Russian Federation. The complete blocking of the service, as emphasized in Roskomnadzor, will be implemented if the requirements of the legislation are not met.

Full blocking of WhatsApp began in Russia

In practice, the limitation of WhatsApp functionality, in particular the deterioration of the quality of calls, began in August 2025. According to RBC, on November 28, 2025, users from different regions, mainly from Moscow, again reported significant malfunctions in the application. Problems affected the sending of text messages and media files.

Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications, confirmed the seriousness of the regulator's intentions in November 2025. According to him, blocking is a matter of time, since the service systematically ignores Russian rules and creates security threats. Earlier, in December 2024, the head of the same committee, Sergei Boyarsky, called rumors of information about a possible blocking and called for caution in assessments.

WhatsApp remains one of the most common messengers in the country. According to the research company Mediascope for October 2025, its audience in Russia is 96.2 million people.^[1]

Blocking calls in Russia - confirmed by Roskomnadzor

On August 13, 2025, Roskomnadzor officially announced the blocking of calls in foreign messengers. This measure affects, in particular, Telegram and WhatsApp (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) - it has become almost impossible to communicate through these applications through voice communication in Russia. Read more here.

Russia began to block calls via WhatsApp

Messenger users in Russia faced problems making calls via WhatsApp (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) and Telegram, which may be associated with the start of testing selective blocking of voice calls in foreign applications from August 1, 2025. The Сбой.РФ failure monitoring service received 340 complaints about problems in WhatsApp, and the international Downdetector service registered about 3900 complaints about problems in WhatsApp and 7800 complaints about Telegram. Journalist Anastasia Kashevarova said that the blocking of WhatsApp began gradually, noting that calls via the mobile Internet in the messenger do not always pass. This became known in August 2025.

According to Forbes, citing a representative of the telecommunications market, problems may be associated with selective blocking of calls in instant messengers, testing of which began on August 1, 2025. Users from various regions of Russia report the inability to get through and talk normally on WhatsApp and Telegram. The TAdviser journalist was convinced that such a problem exists.

Russia began to block calls via WhatsApp

A source in the government said that the Big Four of telecom operators - MTS, MegaFon, beeline and Tele2 - asked to block calls in foreign messengers. Operators made such a proposal at the strategic session on the development of communications at the end of May 2025.

Telecommunications companies have announced the need to generate additional revenue to maintain infrastructure. According to them, the rise in price of base stations and the growth of mobile Internet traffic can lead to a decrease in the speed of Internet access, especially in large cities.

The Antimonopoly Service opposed the offer of operators on a multiple increase in tariffs for subscribers. In this regard, blocking calls in foreign messengers is considered as an alternative way to solve the financial problems of the industry.^[2]

Integration with OkoCRM

In November 2025 OkoCRM , she added her own integrations with personal numbers in OkoStore, messengers Telegram WhatsApp and domestic. MAX Now companies can create a single omnicanal solution and combine text communications within without CRM third-party intermediary services. TAdviser This was announced on November 26, 2025 by representatives of OkoCRM. More here.

Fine for 0.8 million rubles. for non-compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation

The World Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow found WhatsApp and Signal messengers guilty of non-compliance with Russian legislation, the court's press service said on Wednesday. This is the press service of Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.

WhatsApp LLC and Signal Messenger LLC were found guilty of committing an administrative offense, they were fined 800 thousand rubles each, the court said.

Messengers were found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 13.39 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (Failure by the organizer of the instant messaging service established by the legislation of the Russian Federation).

Earlier, in relation to WhatsApp, Russian courts have repeatedly ruled to recover fines for non-removal of prohibited content and violation of the procedure for localizing user data from the Russian Federation. Signal was brought to justice in the Russian Federation for the first time.

The basis for fines was the failure to comply with the norms of Russian legislation regulating the activities of the organizers of instant messaging services. These norms, in particular, include requirements for the localization of personal data of Russian users, user identification and interaction with government agencies, said Anton Nemkin.

{{quote 'Fines in the amount of 800 thousand rubles, despite the relative symbolism for large IT companies, are an important signal: Russian regulators will continue to strictly enforce the requirements of the law, regardless of the jurisdiction of the platforms. In the context of growing geopolitical tensions, the state seeks to minimize the dangerous influence of foreign IT structures on the internal information environment. This applies both to the fight against prohibited content and to possible security threats, the deputy added. }}

The question - how ready these platforms are to adapt to the requirements of Russian legislation - remains open. For Signal, this is a matter of lifting restrictions in Russia, but in order to come to this, the messenger will have to make a lot of efforts. The most difficult thing for the platform will be to regain the trust of users, but there, apparently, they are not thinking about it yet, "Nemkin concluded.

In August 2024, Roskomnadzor (RKN) limited access to the Signal messenger on the territory of the Russian Federation in connection with violation of the requirements of the law, the implementation of which is necessary to counter terrorism and extremism.

A fine of 17 million rubles for refusing to localize Russian data in the Russian Federation

In February 2025, the Tagansky Court of Moscow found the WhatsApp messenger guilty of re-committing an administrative offense related to the refusal to localize the data of Russians in the country. "In relation to WhatsApp LLC, the court imposed an administrative fine of 17 million rubles," the court said. According to Roskomnadzor, the storage of personal data of Russian users was localized by about 600 representative offices of foreign companies in the Russian Federation.^[3]

2024

ILV forcibly entered WhatsApp into the register of information dissemination organizers

Messenger WhatsApp is forcibly included in the register of distribution organizers information (ARI) on the network. Internet What this means and what requirements the platform must now fulfill, explained in. To the State Duma This was announced on December 23, 2024 by the press service of a member of the Committee on State Duma of the Russian Federation Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications with Anton Nemkin reference to. TASS

Yes, WhatsApp was forcibly entered into the ARI register, the department said, answering a relevant question from the TASS agency.

As explained in the department, the services, "which are de facto the organizers of the dissemination of information, in accordance with Russian law, are recognized as such de jure and are included in the ARI register on the territory of the Russian Federation."

The organizers of the dissemination of information (ARI) are legal entities, individual entrepreneurs or individuals who organize the dissemination of information on the Internet among Russian users, Anton Nemkin recalled.

The concept of ARI was introduced by Federal Law No. 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" in 2014. ARIs operating in the territory of the Russian Federation shall be included in the relevant register. Initially, it included large services created for communication, for example, social networks and popular communication platforms. However, as of December 2024, the ILV includes in the register other sites where it is possible to comment, for example, on the media, game services and file storage. The task of the organizers of the dissemination of information is to ensure compliance with the requirements of Russian law when transferring data between network users. In particular, they are obliged to store information about the facts of receiving, transmitting, delivering and processing users' electronic messages for six months, as well as provide this information to law enforcement agencies upon request. This applies to both the messages themselves and metadata - for example, data on IP addresses, the time of sending and receiving messages, - the deputy explained.

In addition, ARIs should block access to prohibited information such as extremist material, child pornography, calls for riots and other types of content deemed illegal in the Russian Federation. To do this, they can use traffic filtering systems that allow them to automatically detect and block such resources. Thus, the activities of the ARI are aimed at ensuring information security and protecting the rights of citizens in the digital environment, Nemkin added.

Information security comes to the fore for a number of reasons related to global digitalization and technology development. With the growth of the amount of data that companies, states and individuals, store and process, the number of cyber threats.,, Hacker attacks data breaches spyware viruses and damage both, and financial reputational. With the active use of the Internet for business, bank operations and personal communication, security becomes critical to protecting information from unauthorized access and manipulation. The ARI has a great responsibility to ensure this protection, and if they do not fulfill their duties, access to their resources may be limited to the telecom operator providing services for providing access to the Internet before the organizer fulfills such duties, on the basis of a court decision that has entered into legal force, the parliamentarian emphasized.

In St. Petersburg, officials were banned from using Telegram and WhatsApp

Since September 2024, government employees have been St. Petersburg banned from using messengers Telegram WhatsApp to exchange official information. According to the information provided by the office of the vice-governor of the city, the decision is related to the need to ensure the protection of correspondence and data of civil servants from compromise, destruction or modification. Instead, it was proposed to use the Russian eXpress platform, which meets the requirements. information security More here

A priest from the Moscow region was sentenced to 3 years in prison for exchanging pornographic photos on WhatsApp

On July 18, 2024, it became known that the Zyuzinsky court of Moscow sentenced Archpriest Dmitry Kuvyrtalov, rector of the Church of the Archangel Michael in Letov, to three years in prison. The priest is accused of exchanging pornographic materials in the WhatsApp messenger. Read more here.

State Duma Deputy Nemkin: Russia began to slow down WhatsApp

The deputy State Duma Anton Nemkin said that Russia the WhatsApp messenger began to slow down in certain regions. This became known on July 12, 2024. A member of the Information Policy Committee noted that this measure is used in cases where the regulator sees a need for this. The decision was made in order to ensure security.

According to the parliamentarian, the slowdown in WhatsApp (owned by the recognized extremist and banned in the Russian Federation Meta) has already been implemented in Dagestan. Anton Nemkin explained that this decision was associated with the anti-terrorist activities of relevant departments. Such measures are aimed at preventing threats.

Anton Nemkin said that Russia began to slow down the WhatsApp messenger

The deputy of the State Duma stressed that, despite the measures taken to limit the speed of the messenger, no official decisions were made to completely block it in Russia. This allows you to maintain access to the service for users.

The TASS news agency on July 8, 2024, citing its own source, reported that WhatsApp's work was also slowed down in Dagestan. The reason for such actions was called the ignorance by the administration of the messenger of calls for extremism.

Earlier, on July 7, 2024, users from several regions of Russia complained about malfunctions in the application. According to the Сбой.рф service, over 7,000 complaints about WhatsApp were recorded that day. Most of the appeals - 59% - came from residents of the Krasnodar Territory. Users from Dagestan accounted for 11% of complaints.

Anton Nemkin, representing the United Russia party, noted that slowing down the work of a foreign messenger is one of the tools for regulating its activities in the country. At the same time, the deputy did not specify whether it is planned to expand the geography of the application of this measure in the future.^[4]

Fraudsters began to massively hack Russian WhatsApp accounts

In June 2024 Russia , a sharp increase in the number of cases of hacking user accounts in the popular messenger was recorded. WhatsApp According to experts from the Office for Organizing the Fight against the Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS in Russia, application vulnerabilities allow cybercriminals to access personal data of Russians, which raises serious concerns about the security of personal information.

According to experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the main problem is the low level of protection of the web version of WhatsApp. It is enough to follow a suspicious link, open a viral video or log in from a new device so that attackers can take possession of the user's account. After gaining access to the account, scammers can easily access personal correspondence and information, which poses a serious threat to user security.

In June 2024, Russia recorded a sharp increase in the number of cases of hacking user accounts in the popular WhatsApp messenger

In addition, according to experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, attackers actively use WhatsApp to commit various crimes - from calls on behalf of loved ones or government agencies to blackmail and extortion of money. To avoid such threats, experts recommend ignoring unknown links, messages and calls from dubious interlocutors, as well as not storing valuable information on the phone.

As the information security analyst at R-Vision noted, fraudsters use social engineering and phishing attacks to gain access to user accounts. Cybercriminals send messages with links to fake websites that look like official WhatsApp pages. Users, clicking on these links and entering their credentials, provide fraudsters with access to their accounts.

Ivan Lebedev, head of the phishing protection group at F.A.C.C.T., said the hacking of WhatsApp accounts was widespread. Cybersecurity experts regularly record individual resources to steal accounts in the messenger. The topic of phishing pages can be, for example, children's contests, which makes them especially dangerous.

Hacking WhatsApp accounts carries a number of threats to users. According to Angara Security, after the attack, scammers gain access to personal information, correspondence, media files and contacts. The victim herself can become the object of blackmail and extortion, as well as lose access to her data.^[5]

Bailiffs did not find WhatsApp assets and closed cases on fines

The bailiffs did not find assets WhatsApp (the messenger belongs to a company that is Meta Russia recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited) and Wikimedia (develops the Internet encyclopedia "") and Wikipedia closed cases on fines totaling 20 million. This rubles is evidenced by the data of the bank of the Federal Bailiff Service () FSSP as of January 1, 2024. More. here

2023

Refusal to start channels in Russia after the threat of blocking

The WhatsApp messenger (owned by Meta, which is recognized as an extremist organization, it is actively banned in Russia) changed its mind about launching the WA Channels service in Russia. This became known in mid-September 2023.

The product will not be available to users inside Russia in the near future, a Meta spokesman told The Moscow Times.

September 26, 2023 it is reported that the coming weeks WhatsApp will make it possible to create channels for all users, except for customers from Russia. This is due to the threats of blocking the messenger from Roskomnadzor and the State Duma. The Russian authorities threatened the service with blocking if it continued to develop in the direction of mass dissemination of information. When unfriendly and prohibited information appeared in the channels in the Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor promised to block the entire service.

Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, also announced the possible blocking of the messenger.

If WhatsApp really launches information Russian-language channels, it will be right to reconsider the attitude towards this messenger, up to its blocking, "Khinshtein wrote in his Telegram channel.

At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Digital Science Maksut Shadayev expressed optimism and said that "everything will be fine with the messenger."

The WhatsApp service reported the launch of channel creation in 180 countries. It is assumed that users will be able to confidentially post information in them, or receive it without control and censorship. WhatsApp said that "thousands of organizations, sports teams, artists and opinion leaders" are already creating their channels in the messenger.

WhatsApp announced the function of creating channels in June. It was originally available to major global media and organizations in Colombia and Singapore.^[6]

Yandex launched a call locator in WhatsApp

Yandex has launched a number identifier for calls in WhatsApp messengers (owned by Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) and Viber. The new functionality will help warn users about calls from scammers. This was reported in the Russian company on August 7, 2023. Read more here.

Telegram overtook WhatsApp for the first time in terms of traffic in Russia

Telegram for the first time overtook WhatsApp (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) in terms of traffic in Russia. This happened in 2022, Vedomosti writes on January 23, 2023, citing data from the largest Russian mobile operators. Read more here.

Fine - 3 million rubles for non-removal of prohibited content

On June 1, 2023, the magistrate of the judicial district of the Tagansky district of Moscow fined the WhatsApp messenger for refusing to remove mentions and information about the medical drug Lyrica from the application.

WhatsApp LLC was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Code of Russia. Appoint him a punishment in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 3 million rubles, - said judge Timur Vakhrameev.

Representatives of the messenger did not appear at the hearing, although they were notified in the prescribed manner, notes. TASS

As stated in the case file, which the agency got acquainted with, an employee of Roszdravnadzor revealed a chat in the WhatsApp message with an offer to buy Lyrica online through a bookmark or through delivery through Yandex.Taxi. Roszdravnadzor transferred information to Roskomnadzor, which demanded that the management of Meta Platforms (recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation, activities in Russia are prohibited), which owns WhatsApp, remove this chat. This requirement was ignored, after which an administrative offense case was initiated.

It is noted that the protocol under the article on the failure to remove prohibited information was first drawn up on WhatsApp. Earlier, the messenger was brought to administrative responsibility in the Russian Federation, but under another article - the refusal to localize data on the territory of Russia. According to the law on personal data, companies are obliged to store data of Russians in data centers located in the country.

The drug "Lyrica" based on pregabalin has become popular in people who are addicted to opioids. In 2015, in Russia, pregabalin and tropicamide, according to the law, began to be released only by prescription.^[7]

2022

A fine of ₽18 million for refusing to localize the data of Russians

On July 28, 2022, the Judge of the World Judicial District No. 422 of the Tagansky District of Moscow fined the WhatsApp messenger (owned by Meta Platforms, a banned in the Russian Federation and recognized extremist corporation) 18 million rubles for repeatedly refusing to organize the storage of Russian data on servers located in the Russian Federation. The company was found guilty under Part 9. Article 13.11 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (failure by the operator when collecting personal data to localize data).

According to TASS, a WhatsApp representative did not appear at the meeting, although he was notified of it properly.

The fact that the court received a protocol on WhatsApp's repeated refusal to localize user data from Russia became known on July 6, 2022. The company faced a fine of 6 million to 18 million rubles.

The Law "On Personal Data" obliges Russian and foreign companies to store personal information of Russians only on the territory of the Russian Federation. The localization requirement applies to foreign companies that do not have a physical presence in Russia, but operate in the country.

According to the report, by Roskomnadzor mid-June 2022, the storage of personal data of Russian users was localized by about 600 representative offices of foreign companies in the Russian Federation. Among them Apple are,,,,, and Microsoft Samsung. PayPal Booking LG

Earlier in 2022, Meta-owned services [[|Facebook]] and [[|Instagram]] were blocked in Russia, but WhatsApp was not banned.

{{quote 'Based on the presence of signs of extremist activity, the prosecutor's office asks to ban the activities of Meta on the territory of the Russian Federation. With regard to the WhatsApp messenger, these requirements do not apply, the prosecutor's office said in March 2022. ^[8]}}

As part of the omnichannel telecom solution for housing and communal services

Russian provider communication services Telfin"" announced on November 10, 2022 the development omnicanal of a solution for informing customers based on, integration PBX "Telfin. Office""" and Bitriks24 WhatsApp. This service improves the quality of service for residents and optimizes the work of management companies and. CONDOMINIUM More. here

Ministry of Education bans teachers from using WhatsApp

The Ministry of Education has banned teachers from using WhatsApp and other foreign messengers in the educational process or in workplaces. Instead, it is recommended to switch to using the "VK Messenger." This became known on October 17, 2022.

Some schools convince to transfer parental chats from WhatsApp, but the Ministry of Education claims that they did not give such instructions. Experts believe that these are private initiatives. The Ministry of Education confirmed the sending of recommendations not to use foreign messengers, but stressed that they relate exclusively to working with the state system "My School" and its components^[9].

Moscow district police officer handed over the summons via video link

The 29-year-old Muscovite was handed a summons through a WhatsApp video call. This was announced in mid-September 2022 by the Mash Telegram channel. Read more here.

Depriving Russian residents of the opportunity to download WhatsApp to their computers

On June 29, 2022, it became known that residents of Russia lost the opportunity to download WhatsApp to their computers. They were denied access to distributions for Windows and macOS posted on the official website of the service.

As reported, the inability to get a WhatsApp distribution from a PC running Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11 and macOS. In other words, it does not depend on the operating system. There is also no connection with the browser - an attempt to download the file ends in failure in at least Chrome, Vivaldi and Firefox.

As of June 29, 2022, the link to download the APK distribution of the messenger for Android from the official website was still working. The messenger was also available in the Russian version of the Google Play app store.

According to the SecurityLab portal, the site from which distributions (fbcdn.net) are downloaded is blacklisted by Roskomnadzor by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia dated February 24, 2022 No. 27-31-2020/Id2145-22.b. As of June 29, 2022, there was no corresponding entry in the register of prohibited sites. This solution allows you to block entire social networks or individual pages in them, as well as entertainment web resources, online media and sites of IT corporations.

Messenger WhatsApp has existed since 2009 and has been owned by the corporation Meta formerly known as Facebook since 2014. At the end of March 2022, Meta was recognized Russia extremist by the organization, and its social networks Facebook Instagram were blocked throughout the country.

WhatsApp avoided such restrictions, probably due to its popularity in Russia. Meanwhile domain , the site where its distribution is downloaded from has the abbreviation FB, which apparently refers to Facebook.

There is a possibility that the initiator of the closure of access to WhatsApp distributions is either Meta itself or the US government. A similar precedent has already been set.

In June 2022, Russians were banned from downloading images of operating systems from the Microsoft website. At first, suspicion fell on its own company itself, but later it turned out that this decision was lowered "from above." As of June 29, 2022, Microsoft did not confirm or deny this.

You can still download WhatsApp from the official website while in Russia. To do this, as in the case of Windows, you only need to deceive the messenger site and convince it that the connection is from any country in the world except Russia.

To do this, you need to fake the IP address using any available means. When using the IP address of Poland or Germany, no restrictions were observed in loading distributions.

Another option is to use WhatsApp Web, the browser version of the messenger. At the time of publication of the material, there were no restrictions on its work when connecting from Russia.

Blocking access to WhatsApp distributions on the messenger website will affect, for the most part, ordinary users and are unlikely to affect Russian officials. In early June 2022, they were ordered to abandon WhatsApp in favor of a special messaging service developed specifically for civil servants. ^[10] from ^[11].

2021

Rostec employees banned from communicating on WhatsApp for work

As it became known in March 2021, Rostec employees were banned from communicating on Zoom, Skype and WhatsApp for work. Instead, it is proposed to use domestic products, including those developed by the state corporation itself. Read more here.

Reduction in the volume of mobile traffic in Russia by a quarter

Over the year, the total volume of mobile Internet traffic in instant messengers increased by 87%. This was announced on December 22, 2021 by Megafon. WhatsApp continues to hold first place with a 48% share, which has shrunk by almost a quarter in a year. Read more here.

2020

Integration with Jivo

On August 10, 2020, it became known that the business messenger Jivo announced with integration the WhatsApp messenger. More. here

Russian court first considered the case through WhatsApp

At the end of March 2020, a Russian court first considered the case using WhatsApp. The head of the human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov told reporters about this.

According to him, the judge of the Nevyansk City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region, using a video call in the messenger, considered an administrative offense case against a local businessman whose cafe functioned during quarantine. As a punishment, the court banned the activities of this institution for a period of 45 days.

We are talking about the Nevyansk cafe "Simba," clarified in the regional department of the Federal Bailiff Service, whose employees sealed the doors of the institution.

The work of shopping centers, cafes, restaurants, shops in the region was limited from March 28, 2020 for an indefinite period. In the regions of Russia, restrictions and bans on the activities of catering enterprises have been introduced everywhere, they can work only in remote trade or for take-out, but not to receive visitors.

In March 2020, Russian courts limited the consideration of cases. Due to the pandemic, cases of an urgent nature and simplified proceedings will now be considered. The courts were recommended to "initiate the consideration of cases using video conferencing systems."

Such meetings on administrative affairs were held twice in Kazan. The Vakhitovsky District Court in both cases fined activists via video link.^[12]

The legal service "Apology of Protest" notes that due to the restriction of the work of the courts due to the coronavirus, the judge first refused to consider the case of the activist, and then decided to do it via Skype. According to the legal service, "this form of organization of the consideration of the case is nothing more than a parody of a fair trial and is not provided for by law."

2018: Daily and monthly audience in Russia

2016: Tele2 subscribers can use WhatsApp without paying for internet traffic

Tele2, an alternative mobile operator, launched the Plus Messengers service in November. The option allows subscribers of the company to use the WhatsApp messenger without paying for Internet traffic.

The Plus Messengers service provides unlimited Internet traffic in the WhatsApp application and the Internet version of the messenger. Earlier, Tele2 zeroed the transfer of data in the WhatsApp application at "heavy" packet tariffs. Thus, the new option is aimed at tariff users who do not include free traffic in the messenger.

The Plus Messengers service includes non-tariff messaging, transfer of photo and video content. Voice and video call traffic via WhatsApp is paid by the user according to the current tariff plan and discounts.

You can activate the Plus Messengers service in your My Tele2 personal account or using the * 155 * 521# command. To disable the option, dial the combination * 155 * 520#. The subscription fee for using the service is 2 rubles per day. The service is also available to the company's corporate customers.

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messengers among Tele2 subscribers: 4.75 million customers use this application, and more than 2.5 million subscribers of the operator communicate daily using the service.

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