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Russia lifts ineffective ban on Telegram messaging app

by Associated Press
| June 19, 2020 12:03 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's communications watchdog said Thursday it would lift a ban on the popular messaging app Telegram after two years of unsuccessful attempts to block it.

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