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Russia's Federal Security Service charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with what it calls facilitating terrorist activity, accusing him of failing to remove channels and bots that Moscow says Ukrainian services used to recruit people and coordinate attacks, and placed him on an international wanted list. Meduza notes that two Russian agencies give different numbers in the case, and Le Monde reports that lawyers point to French law, which bars the extradition of French citizens, as Durov is, to third countries such as Russia or the United Arab Emirates.