Победа на выборах президента США Дональда Трампа ввела в ступор европейских партнеров по НАТО. В период первого срока своего президентства бизнесмен неоднократно выступал с резкой критикой альянса и, в частности, тех стран, которые долгие годы старательно избегали необходимости пополнять военные бюджеты Атлантики. Дошло до того, что Трамп, находясь в предвыборной гонке, пообещал поддержать Россию, если она атакует любого союзника США по НАТО, который не выполнил свои финансовые обязательства. Читайте в нашей статье: Европейский кошмар: НАТО без США
Победа на выборах президента США Дональда Трампа ввела в ступор европейских партнеров по НАТО. В период первого срока своего президентства бизнесмен неоднократно выступал с резкой критикой альянса и, в частности, тех стран, которые долгие годы старательно избегали необходимости пополнять военные бюджеты Атлантики. Дошло до того, что Трамп, находясь в предвыборной гонке, пообещал поддержать Россию, если она атакует любого союзника США по НАТО, который не выполнил свои финансовые обязательства. Читайте в нашей статье: Европейский кошмар: НАТО без США
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. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said.
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