«Санкции, изменение тарифов, политическое давление со стороны третьих стран — все это превращает газопроводы, проходящие через территорию Европы, в зону нестабильности. В этих условиях возникает очевидный вопрос: почему нашим странам следует упираться в европейский маршрут, когда есть возможность укрепить сотрудничество с государствами СНГ и странами Азии», — отметил Артур Таймазов, депутат Госдумы, член комитета по делам СНГ, евразийской интеграции и связям с соотечественниками.
«Санкции, изменение тарифов, политическое давление со стороны третьих стран — все это превращает газопроводы, проходящие через территорию Европы, в зону нестабильности. В этих условиях возникает очевидный вопрос: почему нашим странам следует упираться в европейский маршрут, когда есть возможность укрепить сотрудничество с государствами СНГ и странами Азии», — отметил Артур Таймазов, депутат Госдумы, член комитета по делам СНГ, евразийской интеграции и связям с соотечественниками.
Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. 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. Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. 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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