New Delhi, July 29 -- you sent money to a Ukrainian contact, that makes you complicit, cooperate or face prosecution. The cooperation he was asked to provide was arson.

He was one of at least 46 Russian citizens, aged between 12 and 22, who Russia's Federal Security Service says were drawn into a criminal recruitment scheme operating through a Telegram matchmaking chatbot with 13 million monthly users. On Tuesday, Sputnik reported the FSB had charged Pavel Durov, the Dubai-based founder and chief executive of Telegram, with facilitation of terrorism, and placed him on an international wanted list.

The charges represent the most serious legal confrontation between Durov and a major state since France opened a criminal investigation again...