💣 Russia has designated me as a “terrorist” for refusing its demands for mass surveillance and censorship on Telegram.

Under Russian law, I’m banned from “publishing information on the Internet” 😌

Russian officials have clearly got confused about who can ban whom from the Internet 😉

🇬🇪 Very impressed with Georgia.

🏔 The country is known for its warm people, ancient culture, local food and epic landscapes.

But it doesn’t stop there.

📈 Thanks to its government’s business-friendly policies, Georgia is becoming a major business hub.

❎️ The country’s economy doubled in 5 years and is still growing by 8% a year.

💼 International tech companies pay 0% corporate tax and just 5% on dividends and salaries.

Georgia is seriously underrated as a place to visit and do business.

I'll be back very soon! ✈️

🌍 This summer will see the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history.

⚡️Instant zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion users are about to become reality.

💎 We're bringing a native non-custodial Gram wallet to every Telegram app! 🏳️

🎠 Telegram now supports carousels

One small step for messaging, one giant leap toward turning cat photos into keynote presentations. 😺

🩵 Telegram now has a Rich Text Editor.

It supports tables, headings, inline media, lists, AI content, formulas, and more.

😈 Messaging apps will never be the same!

⚠️ Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.

🧨 The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.

😞 This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.

🌐 Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.

🤔 Such abuse of global Internet routing is suspicous. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.

🚫 India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions.

This punishes 150 million ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials.

And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.

🛡 We’ve done a lot to help fix the problem — even though its source is not Telegram.

Over the past few weeks, we removed hundreds of channels sharing leaked exam materials and related scams in India.

We’ve also been making the “edited” label more visible to prevent backdating scams.

🏳️ Telegram is a force for good. Banning it — even temporarily — is a mistake.

⛔️ The UK government wants to ban social media for children under 16.

But banning social media for kids only puts them in greater danger.

They will be pushed to use VPNs — and unlock far worse illegal content.

We’ve seen this before.

When the Russian government banned Telegram, 95% of Russian teenagers kept using it. They just moved to VPNs. Same in Iran.

Parents already have the tools to restrict their kids’ digital habits: parental controls, screen-time limits — or no smartphone at all.

🤦‍♂️ Instead, many parents give toddlers iPads just to keep them quiet.

No amount of government regulation will fix that.

Under the new law, all social media users in the UK will have to “prove” they’re over 16 — with an ID, face scan or bank card.

🚨 Thousands in the UK are already arrested for political posts every year.

Is this really about protecting children — or identifying more people to arrest?

P. S. More about digital freedom in — the source material for our $200,000 clipping contest.

🏆 Telegram is launching a $200,000 contest for content creators.

🎬 Create a video about digital freedom using ideas and footage from — plus any content or ideas of your own.

📈 Get 10,000+ organic views for a chance to win a share of the prize fund.

📣 Full details in the @contest channel.

🖥 Don't be surprised if you see tables, nested lists, inline media, formulas, headers and more in Telegram messages.

📖 We now support rich formatting for all chatbots.

🔨 Start building! Docs for chatbot devs →

🔄 Telegram’s new update is out. Lots of great new features.

😂 But most importantly: the announcement is actually fun to read.

⌚️ Telegram is now on Wear OS.

Owners of Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Xiaomi Watch and other smartwatches — enjoy! ☕️

⌚️ A fully native Telegram app for Apple Watch is out.

💎 TON’s native currency is becoming Gram.

🤑 Gram was the original name of TON’s currency in the first white paper.

🌱 We’re returning to our roots — and starting a new chapter.

✈️ This rebranding will pave the way for what comes next.

⏳ The transition will take around 3 weeks.

💪 TON remains the name of the blockchain.

🪙 This is step 4 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.

🎭 WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.

🇺🇸 The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages.

Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”

Stay safe — stay Telegram! 📱

🇦🇪 Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks — they helped clear the city of the easily impressed.

The UAE’s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.

$100,400 just went to the 15 winners of the TON Consensus Challenge.

🧠 The smartest engineers on the planet — some armed with loyal AI sidekicks — helped us maximize the security of the new consensus mechanism.

🏆 Telegram contests offer generous prize money — and the only path to joining our engineering team.