VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-07-29
“suppress the right to privacy and free speech.”
Pavel Durov · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-29
Durov earlier this year announced that Russian authorities had opened a criminal investigation against him and accused them of fabricating pretexts to restrict Telegram.
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