In Brief Russia has sharply escalated its long fight with Telegram by charging founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and placing him on an international wanted list. The charges are being brought under Russia’s terrorism facilitation law, and Durov could face life imprisonment if convicted. Telegram is used heavily inside Russia, Ukraine and across the wider post-Soviet information space. In both cases, the core issue is similar: how much responsibility should a messaging platform and its executives carry for what users organise through the app? Russia’s terrorism charge is the most aggressive test yet of how far that resistance can go when a state decides the platform itself has become part of the security problem.