According to the Moscow Times (May 17, 2018), Russia’s state media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, briefly blocked the WhatsApp messaging service in what appears to be a continuation of its campaign to block the Telegram application. Users of both WhatsApp and Viber reported accessibility issues in Russia and Central Europe on Thursday afternoon (May 17, 2018). The WhatsApp addresses were removed from Roskomnadzor’s registry of banned sites about a half-hour after the disruption began.
Roskomnadzor is trying to interfere with Telegram’s operations, by blocking IP addresses belonging to Amazon, Google and other popular hosting providers. Many services and online games have been experiencing difficulties because of this. Meanwhile, Telegram has lost just a few percent of its Russian-speaking users in the first month of the ban.
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