Telegram is not a Russian controlled app. Durov had to flee from Russia after the Crimea invasion because he refused to mass spy on dissidens. If anything he has a good track of not cooperating with Putin.
As of 2024, Russia-the-state has no problems with either Pavel Durov or Telegram. That's suspicious to say the least.
They only tried to ban it in 2018 and gave up in 2020 after failing to do so without cutting off access to other Internet services. The last time they blocked access to it was quite recently, on 21 August, after the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk oblast.
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-...
And so? Durov happens to be the founder of VK...