«От всей души поздравляем всех волонтеров и добровольцев нашей необъятной Родины России, с новым, непривычным для нас еще праздником, но я уверен, что в зоне СВО он драгоценнее и важнее Нового Года.»
«От всей души поздравляем всех волонтеров и добровольцев нашей необъятной Родины России, с новым, непривычным для нас еще праздником, но я уверен, что в зоне СВО он драгоценнее и важнее Нового Года.»
Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site.
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