Луна и Венера показали небесное шоу: «Это была первая в этом году ночь ярких астрономических явлений. Совпали первый «звездопад» года — пик мощного метеорного потока Квадрантиды, до 200 болидов в час, и максимальное сближение Венеры с Луной. Чистое небо во многих регионах позволило воочию наблюдать эти космические зрелища».
Луна и Венера показали небесное шоу: «Это была первая в этом году ночь ярких астрономических явлений. Совпали первый «звездопад» года — пик мощного метеорного потока Квадрантиды, до 200 болидов в час, и максимальное сближение Венеры с Луной. Чистое небо во многих регионах позволило воочию наблюдать эти космические зрелища».
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. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. "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. 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. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback.
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