This is particularly amusing since the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, left Russia to found Telegram in Dubai.
He claimed he wanted a free speech platform without censorship. Because in the 2011 Russia elections, the Russian government (the FSB) asked him to remove the pages of groups organizing mass protests against the government claiming the elections were fraudulent from VKontakte, i.e. basically a Maidan style color revolution attempt in Russia. He refused to remove those pages. Later the Russian government basically got someone to buy the majority of the shares in VK. He said he wasn't in control of the company he founded anymore and he got out of Russia after selling his shares to the new owner. As a billionaire. He also regularly shows up at the World Economic Forum as a speaker.
But now that the EU tells him to block the channels of the RT and Sputnik he has no problems doing it. Typical.