Осужденный за призывы к экстремизму бывший министр обороны Донецкой Народной Республики Игорь Стрелков будет отбывать наказание в Кирово-Чепецкой исправительной колонии.
Осужденный за призывы к экстремизму бывший министр обороны Донецкой Народной Республики Игорь Стрелков будет отбывать наказание в Кирово-Чепецкой исправительной колонии.
On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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