Pavel Durov✔

🧠 The 2026 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence starts today. As a token of support for those who will reinvent our civilization, we'll issue 🏆 240 exclusive Intelligence Cups to the winners. 💵 We guarantee minimum buyback prices ($ 1,000 per Gold Cup , etc.), but the cups' limited supply may make them worth much more on the secondary market. Good luck, AI coders! 🍀

Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat. ⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. 🧹 Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds o

🏆 The International Olympiad in AI finished yesterday in Astana. 🇷🇺 The Russian team took first place in the team competition, and Artem Gorokhov from my home city won the individual event. Well done! 💪 🇰🇿 I'm equally happy for the host country, Kazakhstan, whose Dauzhan Beketov took the second-highest individual score. 👏 📩 We're in touch with the organizers to deliver the winners' prizes from Tel

🇺🇿 The 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics starts today in Tashkent. 🏆 The IOI is the ultimate coding competition for high-school students. Years ago, many members of the Telegram team won medals there. 🤝 To support the best young programmers in the world, Telegram will award the 235 winners exclusive digital collectibles — Algorithm Cups — worth at least $117,000 in total. 🕌 It’s fitting t

1️⃣ 3️⃣ Telegram turns 13 today. For over half that time — the past 7,5 years — it's been one of the 10 most downloaded mobile apps in the world . A whole generation has grown up with it 💪 🎂 Happy birthday, Telegram!

🏆 The International Olympiad in Informatics ( IOI ) ends today. 🇷🇺 Students from Moscow and St. Petersburg won 2 🥇 gold and 2 🥈 silver medals — well done, Vladislav Zhiganov (#2 overall!), Maksim Kravchenko, Sergei Mukhanov and Vladimir Zvezdin! 🇺🇦 Ukraine won 3 medals: 🥇 gold for Vladyslav Khalin, and 2 🥈 silver for Illia Shevchenko and Daria Perekopska 💪 🇧🇾 Belarus took 1 🥇 gold and 1 🥈 silver,

💎 Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone. If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains. 🖥 For example, @durov would get durov.gram , and @monk would get monk.gram . Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — just by typing one prompt ✨

🚨 Two years ago, I was detained in Paris by police for 3 days — the longest they can hold someone before charging them. In an unprecedented move, French authorities accused the head of a major platform of crimes committed by its users. That investigation is still ongoing, although it makes less sense with each passing year. Why? Because we now have extensive evidence that Telegram was neither wors