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Russia charges Telegram founder Durov with facilitating terrorism
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POLITICO
Pavel Durov watches the bantamweight bout at UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 25, 2025.
| Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty ImagesMoscow claims the platform allows Ukrainian intelligence services to recruit spies and support terrorist activities.
Russia charged Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday with facilitating terrorist activity and placed the Soviet-born Kremlin critic on an international wanted list.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) accused Durov’s messaging platform of supporting Ukrainian intelligence services.
The FSB also accused Telegram of failing to remove numerous channels, chats and bots that it alleged were used by Ukrainian intelligence agencies and terrorist and extremist organizations to coordinate sabotage, terrorist attacks, mass killings and cyber fraud in Russia.