đź”° Highlights of Leader's speech during the meeting with Iranian officials and ambassadors from Islamic countries on Jan. 28, 2025
🔸In the first stage of colonialism, the oppressive powers began by plundering resources. If you read the history of colonialism, you'll see the first thing they targeted and were after was natural resources. That was the beginning.
🔹The second stage of colonialism involved the destruction of the original cultures of nations, which is truly heartbreaking. In Africa, age-old civilizations and cultures existed that were totally destroyed by colonial powers. In fact, they plundered there too and stole their culture.
🔸In the third stage of colonialism, their goal was the national and religious identities of nations, and their aim was to take that away too.
đź”° Highlights of Leader's speech during the meeting with Iranian officials and ambassadors from Islamic countries on Jan. 28, 2025
🔸In the first stage of colonialism, the oppressive powers began by plundering resources. If you read the history of colonialism, you'll see the first thing they targeted and were after was natural resources. That was the beginning.
🔹The second stage of colonialism involved the destruction of the original cultures of nations, which is truly heartbreaking. In Africa, age-old civilizations and cultures existed that were totally destroyed by colonial powers. In fact, they plundered there too and stole their culture.
🔸In the third stage of colonialism, their goal was the national and religious identities of nations, and their aim was to take that away too.
In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. 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.” For example, WhatsApp restricted the number of times a user could forward something, and developed automated systems that detect and flag objectionable content. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements.
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