The servers are definitely not in Russia because the team had to leave Russia due to the pressure from the government which outlawed it a few years ago. IIRC it

The servers are definitely not in Russia because the team had to leave Russia due to the pressure from the government which outlawed it a few years ago. IIRC it runs on AWS because I remember when Russian government started banning Telegram IP ranges a lot of AWS-based sites became unavailable in Russia as collateral damage