🇷🇺🇱🇾 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Acting Foreign Minister at the Government of National Unity of Libya Taher al-Baour held talks on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meetings within the framework of Russia's Presidency in the UN Security Council
🇷🇺🇱🇾 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Acting Foreign Minister at the Government of National Unity of Libya Taher al-Baour held talks on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meetings within the framework of Russia's Presidency in the UN Security Council
📍 New York, July 16, 2024
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BY Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Erbil
"There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. 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.
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