Roskomnadzor's chief(Roskomnadzor is Russia's chief media regulator),
Aleksandr Zharov, notified that the measures would also target the Telegram app widely used by Russians.
For now, Google News has avoided Roskomnadzor's restrictions because it is less popular,” The Moscow
Times wrote in April soon after the law went into effect.
The argument of representatives of Telegram that it is technically impossible to transfer
encryption keys to the special service, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, called slyness.