Russia now warns Facebook

moscow - Russia is now threatening Facebook with a blockade. The Moscow authorities want data from Russian users to be stored in Russia. If that does not happen, the site and app will be blocked before the end of the year.

'We will inspect the company before the end of 2018, as it has to meet several conditions,' said the head of the Roskomnadzor watchdog against Wednesday's business newspaper Izvestia.

Earlier this week, Russia ordered to block the chat app Telegram. He refused to give the keys to read messages to the secret service FSB. Many Russians, however, managed to bypass the blockade, so they could continue to use Telegram. The founder and CEO of Telegram, outlaw Pavel Doerov, has called users to 'digital resistance. '

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