Russia's federal censor reportedly held a secret meeting with the country's biggest ISPs

The agency denies it, but the newspaper Kommersant has several sources who say Russia’s federal censor held a secret meeting with representatives from the country’s biggest Internet service providers to discuss their failure to block Telegram.

According to several industry insiders and an unnamed state official, Roskomnadzor wanted to find more effective ways to block access to the instant messenger, which has so far managed to remain accessible to most users, despite the blocking of millions of IP addresses. 

Kommersant says the meeting also acknowledged that Roskomnadzor’s aggressive approach has even knocked out “Revizor” (the agency’s own service for blocking websites), which officials have denied.