The founder of the telegram messenger Pavel Durov on his page in VKontakte on Monday, June 26, commented on the statement of the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, who accused him of "demonstrating legal nihilism" and unwillingness to provide intelligence services with "keys to information".

"This requirement not only contradicts the 23rd article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the right to confidentiality of correspondence, but also demonstrates ignorance of how communication is coded in 2017," Durov said..

He explained that the exchange of secret information to date is built on end encryption, which means that messenger owners can not have "keys to decryption". "These keys are stored only on the devices of the users themselves. Although Telegram was the pioneer of this technology, today end-to-end encryption is used by all popular instant messengers, including WhatsApp, Viber, iMessage and even Facebook Messenger, "noted the founder of Telegram.

Durov also expressed confidence that the blocking of the messenger "does not complicate the tasks of terrorists and drug dealers". "To defeat terrorism through interlocks, we will have to block the Internet," he said..

June 25, Zharov said that until the blocking of Telegram there are few days left, and Roskomnadzor is trying to use the "last opportunity for communication and dialogue". "The reluctance of Mr. Durov to provide the keys to information to all special services of the world - as far as I know, this is so - allows terrorists to continue to kill people with impunity using this channel of communication," he stressed..

On May 16 it became known that the Roskomnadzor employees sent a letter to the Telegram administration with a request to provide the data necessary for its inclusion in the register of information dissemination organizers.

Nevertheless, the messenger administration has not yet provided any information. In this regard, Zharov said that the service should be blocked on the territory of Russia, if there is no response from him.

After that, the Telegram administration announced the support of proxy servers using the SOCKS5 protocol in the upcoming update of the Android application. This protocol will allow the default messenger to forward user data packets to its servers through proxy servers, that is, bypassing future restrictions.