Catalin CimpanuDear journalists,
Just because Durov says Russia's bank outage was caused by their attempts to ban VPNs and Telegram doesn't mean it's true.
Durov has a history of saying false things. A really long one too!
Sam IzbyThe last time Roskomnadzor tried to block Telegram, and Durov tried to resiste (that was in 2018), they really did shut down a large part of the Russian internet.
Now, many MTProxy providers are trying to hide behind the addresses of legitimate whitelisted websites. So this sounds plausible.