the significance of France's detention and investigation of paval durov downplayed by Moscow kremlin's spokesperson Dimitri pesov said Russia is ready to assist the telegram founder to the extent of its capabilities and that as a French citizen durov has everything he needed to organize his legal defense but asserted the case should not turn into Political persecution the main thing is that what's happening in France does not turn into Political persecution we know that the president of France has denied any connection with politics but on the other hand certain accusations are being made we will see what happens next jov May face additional scrutiny this time coming from the EU the European commission is investigating whether telegram has the minimum number of users that would require it to comply with more stringent rules since February a new law known as the Digital Services act means Platforms in the EU with at least 45 million monthly users have greater obligations telegram escaped the extra rules since it said it had 41 million uses in February but the commission has admitted to having doubts over those claims under the DSA platforms must update their figures every 6 months and when the time came for an update in August telegram refused to give exact figures insisting on its website that it had significantly fewer than 45 million average monthly active recipients in the EU what we are asking for is a precise figure tegram merely says they are sharply below the threshold violations under the DSA can be met with sanctions mainly in the form of fines the EU has stressed there is no connection with durov's case in France