[lxglv]

Or it may mean, that they decided to stop budgeting effort that led to almost zero result. RossTelekomNadzor was banning IP-ranges from the main cloud providers, that resulted in major outages of other services (that were not multi-clod) except Telegram.

People, who used Telegram did not stop using it since the very first day of official ban.

[maqp]

The Russian state knew the ban wasn't effective, they just wanted to save face for being humiliated wrt Telegram not handing private TLS keys.

They never needed those keys however, they've always had the capability to hack the server.