By Andrew Osborn and Mrinmay Dey MOSCOW, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, has been ...

Russia has blocked the popular messaging service WhatsApp over its failure to comply with local legislation, the Kremlin said Thursday, urging its 100 million Russian users to switch to a domestic ...

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WhatsApp on Thursday said Russia had attempted to "fully block" its service, with 100 million users affected. The Kremlin ...

Just as chat apps like WhatsApp collapsed the cost of international messaging from, say, 30 cents per text to zero, ...

Russia has attempted to fully block WhatsApp as it tightens control of online communication and pushes people toward a ...

After warnings from lawmakers last year, WhatsApp has been blocked in Russia for as many as 100 million users.

Russia has attempted to fully block WhatsApp in the country, the company said, the latest move in an ongoing government ...

Russia has confirmed that it has blocked instant messaging app WhatsApp in the country, instead directing Russian citizens to ...

"Max is an accessible alternative, a developing messenger, a national messenger," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said ...

Critics and rights groups say the measures are a clear attempt by the Kremlin to expand surveillance and tighten control over internet use, amid a broad crackdown on dissent during the ongoing war in ...

WhatsApp has effectively been erased from Russia’s internet, cutting off one of the country’s most widely used messaging ...