Telegram messaging app outages observed in Russian cities – Russian media

Telegram, the widely popular messaging app, has been down in various Russian cities, including Moscow and St Petersburg.

Source: Kremlin-aligned news agency TASS

Quote: "The Telegram messenger app has been experiencing outages in various Russian cities, including Moscow, St Petersburg, and Voronezh and Volgograd oblasts. This is based on data from DownRadar, a service for tracking outages," the report said.

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