FACTBOX: What's the deal with Telegram in Russia

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. Telegram blocked 150,286 channels and groups on its platform for violating its policies on March 28 and 29, TASS calculated based on statistics available on the messenger's website.

TASS has compiled the main information on the situation with the messenger.

- On March 28 and 29, Telegram administrators blocked 150,286 channels and groups worldwide for violating its policies.

- As of March 30, more than 11,174,000 groups and channels have been blocked on Telegram since the beginning of the year.

- Over the past week, the app's admins blocked over 562,000 channels, bringing the total number of channels blocked to over 2.535 million since the beginning of the month.