❗️TODAY! To colleagues and friends in Geneva and the surrounding area:
🔥 We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Security Index Yearbook: Global Edition (in English), which will take place on Wednesday, November 20, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in Conference Room VII at the UN Office in Geneva. The event will be held in the format of a roundtable discussion on “Security Index in a New World: What Future for Arms Control?” focusing on the future of arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, and other pressing issues in the context of new global realities.
🍀Ambassador Gennady Gatilov, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva, will deliver the opening remarks.
⚡️Dr. Vladimir Orlov, Founding Director of PIR Center, will moderate the discussion, joined by colleagues from UNIDIR, current and former PIR Center staff members, and members of the PIR Center Advisory Board. Ambassadors, representatives of the Geneva-based diplomatic community, and UN experts and staff are warmly invited to participate.
☝️The invitation and agenda are attached. UN pass holders are welcome to attend.
❗️TODAY! To colleagues and friends in Geneva and the surrounding area:
🔥 We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Security Index Yearbook: Global Edition (in English), which will take place on Wednesday, November 20, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in Conference Room VII at the UN Office in Geneva. The event will be held in the format of a roundtable discussion on “Security Index in a New World: What Future for Arms Control?” focusing on the future of arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, and other pressing issues in the context of new global realities.
🍀Ambassador Gennady Gatilov, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva, will deliver the opening remarks.
⚡️Dr. Vladimir Orlov, Founding Director of PIR Center, will moderate the discussion, joined by colleagues from UNIDIR, current and former PIR Center staff members, and members of the PIR Center Advisory Board. Ambassadors, representatives of the Geneva-based diplomatic community, and UN experts and staff are warmly invited to participate.
☝️The invitation and agenda are attached. UN pass holders are welcome to attend.
Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. In addition, Telegram now supports the use of third-party streaming tools like OBS Studio and XSplit to broadcast live video, allowing users to add overlays and multi-screen layouts for a more professional look. 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.” The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel.
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