The Federation Council website has begun publishing annual reports from senators: in them, they share statistics from their Telegram channels, according to Vedomosti.
The leader in terms of the number of subscribers is currently the head of the International Affairs Committee, Grigory Karasin (representing the Sakhalin Region) — 4091 readers. His report states that the channel is «regularly cited by regional, federal, and international media».
Marina Sidukhina (Samara Region), Sergey Perminov (Leningrad Region), Andrey Klishas (Krasnoyarsk Territory), and Artyom Sheikin (Amur Region) also spoke about their Telegram channels. The latter previously explained the problems with uploading videos to Telegram as a result of successive restrictive measures against the messenger.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia, Maksut Shadaev, stated that law enforcement agencies have direct confirmation of access by foreign intelligence services to user correspondence in Telegram.
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