Russia never actually intended to fully block Telegram. Otherwise they would just make Google kick it from Russian version of App Store and Google play, but they never did it.
I'm not for any of conspiracy stories, but we need to be clear about this ban story.
Both Google and Apple do block apps for certain countries though especially those used for distriution of copyrighted materials. Russia certainly can force Apple to comply if there was wuch a goal. Or at least RKN can just break push notifications for everyone.
I'm not the one for conspiracy theories though. Most likely they never intended to actually block it simply because they are using it themselfs and that's just it.
> Russia certainly can force Apple to comply if there was wuch a goal. Or at least RKN can just break push notifications for everyone.
Obviously, they are not mad enough to break everyone's phones just to block Telegram.
> I'm not the one for conspiracy theories though.
Yeah, that was my thought. You did not provide any evidence to the claim that RKN only pretended they want to block Telegram, while there's a lot of evidence they actually wanted to block: they blocked millions of IP addresses and they threatened Apple to block App Store.
> simply because they are using it themselfs
If they really wanted to use it themselves, they would not block AWS and DO.
I'm not for any of conspiracy stories, but we need to be clear about this ban story.