Good morning and Happy New Year, everyone!! Today begins my restock and minor rebranding effort for my Early Spring 2025 collection 🥰 I can't wait to show everyone what I've got in store for you.
I would like to profusely thank each and every person who has helped me with my work over the last year. I am grateful for your engagement with my small business, and I am grateful for your smiling faces. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
I am still on semi-hiatus, but expect to hear a bit more from me in a few weeks. 🩷🌸
Good morning and Happy New Year, everyone!! Today begins my restock and minor rebranding effort for my Early Spring 2025 collection 🥰 I can't wait to show everyone what I've got in store for you.
I would like to profusely thank each and every person who has helped me with my work over the last year. I am grateful for your engagement with my small business, and I am grateful for your smiling faces. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
I am still on semi-hiatus, but expect to hear a bit more from me in a few weeks. 🩷🌸
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.”
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