Когда-то здесь жили люди. Много людей. В каждой комнате по семье, а то и по две. Со всего Советского Союза ехали работяги: строители, металлурги, электрики, повара, учителя и инженеры. Ехали за деньгами, за северным стажем. Находились и те, кто ехал за особой северной романтикой, которая всегда была сопряжена с миссией первооткрывателей. Первая школа, первый собственный хлеб, первый огневой никель и первая электролитная медь — это было время первых, время покорителей Мончетундры...
Когда-то здесь жили люди. Много людей. В каждой комнате по семье, а то и по две. Со всего Советского Союза ехали работяги: строители, металлурги, электрики, повара, учителя и инженеры. Ехали за деньгами, за северным стажем. Находились и те, кто ехал за особой северной романтикой, которая всегда была сопряжена с миссией первооткрывателей. Первая школа, первый собственный хлеб, первый огневой никель и первая электролитная медь — это было время первых, время покорителей Мончетундры...
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country.
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