Currently, it is possible to buy stars on Telegram, pay for a premium subscription, use the Telegram crypto wallet, and trade Gram (Toncoin) tokens, stated Denis Polyakov, head of the "Digital Economy" practice at the GMT Legal law firm:
"So far, there are no issues with such purchases, as only Durov himself is on the list of terrorists/extremists, not the Telegram operator company."
The Russian state may in the future add the Telegram operator company to the Rosfinmonitoring list — as was done with the Meta company in 2022, the lawyer suggested. However, all of that is a question for the future, and for now, there are no such problems, clarified Polyakov.
Rosfinmonitoring also stated that "restrictions against Durov do not apply to Telegram as a legal entity."
The day before, the Federal Security Service announced the initiation of a criminal case against the entrepreneur for "facilitating terrorist activities." Andrei Svintsov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, advised Russians to stop buying TON (Gram) cryptocurrency, paying for subscriptions, and conducting "any operations within the Telegram ecosystem."
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