The purpose of this channel is stated in its own name: it exists to keep Telegram reachable when a government blocks it, and nearly every substantial post here is either a proxy configuration, a report of a fresh block somewhere in the world, or a technical note on how the blocking itself works. Since 2018 the operator has published working MTProto and TLS proxy links, split by country when one region's users start hammering the same server, and reminded people to switch proxies off again once a block lifts, because plain Telegram is faster without one.
The country-by-country record reads like a running incident log rather than a subscription feed: Indonesian users showing up in numbers in January 2021, Cuban users in July of that year, Uzbekistan blocking Telegram outright in August and again in November 2021, a spike of users from Russia in October 2023, and a June 2026 post breaking down an Indian ISP allegedly using BGP hijacking against Telegram's own network ranges — argued in enough technical detail (ROA, RPKI, "more specific" route announcements) that it reads as written by someone who actually operates network infrastructure, not a proxy reseller repeating a term.
Mixed in are shorter operational notes (maintenance windows, "proxy isn't needed in southern Russia anymore, remember to switch it off") and occasional first-person reflections on censorship and freedom of speech that read less like a service bulletin and more like a personal diary of someone who has kept this running for years, unpaid, because they believe in it.
What this is not: a channel with any kind of publishing rhythm. Gaps between posts run from weeks to well over a year — nothing between February and June 2026, nothing at all through most of 2024 and 2025 in what's shown here — so it's a resource worth having saved for the day Telegram gets blocked where you live, not something to check daily. Content also switches between Russian and English post to post without translation. A good fit for anyone who might need a working proxy on short notice and can tolerate a bilingual, irregular feed; a poor fit for anyone expecting steady updates or single-language consistency.
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