Pavel Durov

That we're trying to do the right thing here, but without Apple, we can't do much.

And then New York Times picked it up with the picture of the protesters flying paper airplanes.

Apple was criticized in that story.

And I thought, well, Apple should probably come back to the right side of history here.

I waited for one day and two days in the meantime since we've been unable to update telegram for more than a month it started to fall apart because the new version of ios came out

And it made the old versions of Telegram obsolete.

Some features that used to work stopped working.

And users all over the world started to suffer.

People that had nothing to do with Russia from other parts of the world experienced issues with Telegram.

So it was really serious.

And I said to my team, you know what, if by 6 p.m.

today, I think it was a Friday,

Nothing changes and Apple doesn't allow us to push the version of Telegram through.

Let's just forget about the Russian market.

Let's keep going because the rest of the world is more important.

It's sad, but what can we do?

magically, 15 minutes to the time I was planning to remove Telegram from the Russian app store in order to proceed globally, Apple reached out to us and said, it's okay.

keep playing this hide-and-seek game with the sensor, bypassing censorship through digital resistance.

In Iran, it was a little bit different because we realized it would have been too expensive to try to come up with all these IP addresses.

And in addition, it was...