И еще косвенные доказательства того, что угрозы идут из России и мы, действительно, идем по верному пути и ряд наших предположений по исполнителям и заказчикам верны: все аккаунты, с которых писались угрозы мне, Живову, Сапонькову и нашим родственникам, волонтерам фонда "Два майора", а также с которых пытались договариваться с самими товарищами Двумя майорам, были удалены. Аккаунт "Игорь" также удален, но он и удалил всю переписку, так что я его уже не нашел.
И еще косвенные доказательства того, что угрозы идут из России и мы, действительно, идем по верному пути и ряд наших предположений по исполнителям и заказчикам верны: все аккаунты, с которых писались угрозы мне, Живову, Сапонькову и нашим родственникам, волонтерам фонда "Два майора", а также с которых пытались договариваться с самими товарищами Двумя майорам, были удалены. Аккаунт "Игорь" также удален, но он и удалил всю переписку, так что я его уже не нашел.
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. 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 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 fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare.
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