«Среди некоторых русских чиновников бытовало мнение, что дурным обращением со своими людьми они укрепляют представление о российской силе в глазах заграницы. В европейских державах, предоставлявших России займы, эта демонстрация силы, говорят, производила впечатление: чем более жестокие дела творились в России, тем выше вырастал ее престиж в Европе. Есть, впрочем, весьма подходящая к случаю русская поговорка: «Бей своих, чтоб чужие боялись» (Пайпс. «Русская революция. Агония старого режима. 1905-1917» (1990 г.)).
«Среди некоторых русских чиновников бытовало мнение, что дурным обращением со своими людьми они укрепляют представление о российской силе в глазах заграницы. В европейских державах, предоставлявших России займы, эта демонстрация силы, говорят, производила впечатление: чем более жестокие дела творились в России, тем выше вырастал ее престиж в Европе. Есть, впрочем, весьма подходящая к случаю русская поговорка: «Бей своих, чтоб чужие боялись» (Пайпс. «Русская революция. Агония старого режима. 1905-1917» (1990 г.)).
"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 channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. 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. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. The perpetrators use various names to carry out the investment scams. They may also impersonate or clone licensed capital market intermediaries by using the names, logos, credentials, websites and other details of the legitimate entities to promote the illegal schemes.
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