Не все обращают внимание, однако во ВЦИОМовском опросе так называемый «протестный электорат» отображён гораздо ярче: 11,1% респондентов поддержали разные непарламентские силы – это больше, чем у какой-либо оппозиционной партии в Думе.
Такую серьёзную цифру можно воспринять и как запрос общества на создание новой, конструктивной оппозиции – «Новые люди» пока не справляются с этой задачей, так и оставаясь партией немногочисленных «продвинутых» бизнесменов и улыбчивых студентов.
Не все обращают внимание, однако во ВЦИОМовском опросе так называемый «протестный электорат» отображён гораздо ярче: 11,1% респондентов поддержали разные непарламентские силы – это больше, чем у какой-либо оппозиционной партии в Думе.
Такую серьёзную цифру можно воспринять и как запрос общества на создание новой, конструктивной оппозиции – «Новые люди» пока не справляются с этой задачей, так и оставаясь партией немногочисленных «продвинутых» бизнесменов и улыбчивых студентов.
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. 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. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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