RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇷🇺 Russia just put the Telegram founder on an international most-wanted list. The FSB charged Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of letting Ukrainian intelligence use the app to coordinate attacks inside Russia. Durov, who lives in Dubai and hasn’t set foot in Russia in years, has been unbothered from the start. When the charges first landed, he said Moscow was inventing pretexts to choke off free speech and called it the act of a state afraid of its own people. The charge carries up to 15 years, not that anyone expects him to show up and serve them. The timing is almost too on the nose, landing right as the K

🇷🇺 Russia just put the Telegram founder on an international most-wanted list.

The FSB charged Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of letting Ukrainian intelligence use the app to coordinate attacks inside Russia.

Durov, who lives in Dubai and hasn’t set foot in Russia in years, has been unbothered from the start.

When the charges first landed, he said Moscow was inventing pretexts to choke off free speech and called it the act of a state afraid of its own people.

The charge carries up to 15 years, not that anyone expects him to show up and serve them.

The timing is almost too on the nose, landing right as the Kremlin herds Russians onto MAX, its own state-built app wired straight into FSB surveillance.

An international warrant for a man the Kremlin can’t touch, whose crime was refusing to hand over the keys.

Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie

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