Roskomnadzor about the removal of requirements for restricting access to the Telegram messenger, agreed with the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. The reason given is founder of Telegram readiness terrorism and extremism.
was introduced on April 16, 2018 and resulted in blacklisting IP addresses of large cloud providers and content delivery networks, which completely discredited Roskomnadzor. Hundreds of legitimate sites turned out to be unavailable, including some large projects, including government ones (for example, authentication stopped working on the Russian Post website). Selective blocking of addresses affecting large resources was lifted, but many Western projects remained inaccessible until now. At the same time, Telegram itself successfully bypassed all attempts to restrict access and its popularity only increased.
In the process of preparing materials for OpenNet there was inaccessibility due to blocking of more than 80 sites related to open source software. Some of these sites remained inaccessible until recently. For example, the blocking affected mail.python.org, bugs.python.org, www.reactos.org, addons.mozilla.org, wiki.qt.io, nextcloud.com, www.powerdns.com, 7-zip.org, eff.org, wireshark.org, pytorch.org, gnome-look.org, www.midori-browser.org, bugs.php.net, peppermintos.com, people.kernel.org, mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com, www.dovecot.org, fxsitecompat.dev, mariadb.org, async.rs, letsencrypt.org, mxlinux.org,
git.openwrt.org, blogs.apache.org, opensource.org, audacious-media-player.org and many lesser known projects.
Source: opennet.ru