Еще «кавказский» эпизод из путча 1991го. Лидер тогдашних христианских демократов и депутат Верховного совета РСФСР Аксючиц пугает баррикадников у Белого дома «спецназом из республик Кавказа» (такой вообще был?), которых он, в отличие от обычных военных, не относит «к нашим детям» и «братьям». Сейчас так стращают вездесущими «кадыровцами», а в 1917м во время Корниловского выступления страх внушали теккинцы и «Дикая дивизия» из «кавказских туземцев» (которые реально участвовали в акции, но свернули).
Еще «кавказский» эпизод из путча 1991го. Лидер тогдашних христианских демократов и депутат Верховного совета РСФСР Аксючиц пугает баррикадников у Белого дома «спецназом из республик Кавказа» (такой вообще был?), которых он, в отличие от обычных военных, не относит «к нашим детям» и «братьям». Сейчас так стращают вездесущими «кадыровцами», а в 1917м во время Корниловского выступления страх внушали теккинцы и «Дикая дивизия» из «кавказских туземцев» (которые реально участвовали в акции, но свернули).
Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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