Following the Sputnik and Mail.ru Search, the Yandex search system
also removed the official Telegram website (telegram.org) from the search results. When requesting [Telegram] in “Yandex” there is no link to the official site of the messenger. In first place in the search results appears tlgrm.ru.
The site was removed only from the Russian version of the search for Russian users, but remained on yandex.com.
On the first day after being removed from the issue, the press service of Yandex explained the incident: “Apparently, the link has been added to the Roskomnadzor registry. Synchronization with the registry occurs automatically. “Yandex” removes links as new data is received, ”RIA Novosti was told in the Yandex press service.
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At the same time, Yandex continues to display links to twitter.com/telegram, as well as my.telegram.org, web-telegram.ru and other resources related to the banned instant messenger.
Telegram was
blocked in Russia on April 13, 2018 by a decision of the Tagansky court of Moscow at the request of Roskomnadzor. During the blocking period, the Russian audience of the messenger
has grown significantly compared with March, although it has not yet reached the April level.

Google search results filter out nothing, and when searching for Telegram, the official website comes first. Recently, the company
paid a fine of 500 thousand rubles. for non-compliance with Russian content filtering requirements. After trying to comply with similar Chinese censorship, Google employees launched a protest and
forced the company to abandon such plans .