Durov revealed who had approached him with a request regarding the decision to block on the platform owned by the entrepreneur.
UNN reports with reference to Reuters.
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This spring in the Salon des Batailles at the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of the elections. I refused
The founder of Telegram recalled that the platform did not block protesters in Russia, Belarus or Iran.
We will not start doing this in Europe
Earlier, Durov wrote that the government of one of the European countries, hinting at France, asked to block "conservative" channels before the elections in Romania.
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George Simion, the leader of the pro-Russian "Alliance for the Union of Romanians", acknowledged the victory of Nicușor Dan.
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