Max was officially designated the “national messenger” last year, boosting the usage of the little-known app owned by leading ...

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

Russia's government reportedly attempted to fully block WhatsApp on Wednesday in what the messaging service called an effort ...

"Today the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance ...

Due to Meta’s unwillingness to comply with Russian law, such a decision was indeed made and implemented,” Kremlin spokesman ...

Moscow has accused foreign messaging apps of breaching national laws and labeled Meta an "extremist" company in 2022.

The digital curtain is falling in Russia as the Kremlin officially pulled the plug on WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging app.

Russia on Thursday moved to block the WhatsApp messaging platform owned by Meta, further restricting international communications for citizens and visitors. In 2022, Meta Russia was designated as an ...

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

Russia has attempted to block access to WhatsApp, the Meta-owned encrypted smartphone messaging application said, accusing ...

WhatsApp and Telegram sound the alarm as the Kremlin chokes off Western apps to promote MAX, a state-backed rival modeled ...

Russia has confirmed ban on Meta's WhatsApp. Russia said that it has blocked the messaging service WhatsApp over its failure ...