When you learn how Russian intelligence community operates, you realize that this isn't as much a defense of Durov...

This is another way of trying to inflate an incident, to create "an elephant out of a fly"(as they say in Russia)

This has little to no relevance on freedom of speech

If Telegram helps Mother Russia more than it hurts it, which it likely does + it's something Snowden would reasonably say. Makes perfect sense to me.