‘Wake up already’: Internet disruptions and Telegram outages fuel growing anger among Russian users

The Russian authorities appears to be blocking or throttling Telegram. According to the head of the Internet Protection Society, by the evening of March 16 the messenger’s availability had dropped to 75 percent, which means that one in four messages fails to reach its recipient. Kommersant reports that over the past week, the share of failed requests to Telegram domains has risen to nearly 80 percent on average.