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Nope. They got to some agreement

Sadly whatsapp got completely blocked, cause they’d never agree to that

Whatsapp isn't blocked in Russia. At least, it wasn't a few weeks ago when I last used it to talk to people from there

Might they be people using VPNs? I'm guessing it's almost universal for the people who are used to using WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube...

I stopped getting messages through to my Russian friends sometime around the 20th of July

Is that a sarcasm? Whatsapp is not blocked in Russia