Почти каждый день преподавание на трех (!) магистратурах МГИМО - международный лоббизм, информационное воздействие и политическое консультирование. Вчера - лекция в Вышке. А теперь еще участие в пятницу 29 ноября в пленарном заседании конференции по безопасности в МГУ. Большая честь выступить после моего учителя, академика РАН, шестого секретаря Совета Безопасности РФ Андрея Афанасьевича Кокошина. @politburo2
Почти каждый день преподавание на трех (!) магистратурах МГИМО - международный лоббизм, информационное воздействие и политическое консультирование. Вчера - лекция в Вышке. А теперь еще участие в пятницу 29 ноября в пленарном заседании конференции по безопасности в МГУ. Большая честь выступить после моего учителя, академика РАН, шестого секретаря Совета Безопасности РФ Андрея Афанасьевича Кокошина. @politburo2
Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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.” 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.
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