Russia's communications regulator has blocked instant messaging platform Discord for violating Russian law, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday, making the San Francisco-based company the latest foreign technology platform to be restricted in Russia.

The Discord messenger has been blocked in Russia for supposedly violating the country's legislation. Source: Russian censorship authority Roskomnadzor, cited by The Moscow Times Details: Russian users had previously complained en masse about Discord malfunctions,

Russia has for several years ordered foreign technology platforms to remove content it regards as illegal, issuing relatively small but regular fines when it rules that companies have failed to comply.

Russia said on Tuesday that it still had an emergency hotline with the United States and the NATO military alliance to deflate crises as nuclear risks rise amid the gravest confrontation between Moscow and West since the depths of the Cold War.

Russia announced it still maintains a direct crisis hotline with the United States and NATO, as nuclear risks rise during the most intense standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War. The original "red phone" hotline between Moscow and Washington was set up in 1963 to prevent miscommunication after the Cuban Missile Crisis.