Глава нищего Забайкалья Александр Осипов захотел пиара по-быстрому, и пообещал выплачивать за каждый подбитый танк Leopard и Abrams от 500 тысяч до 3 млн рублей. Его не остановило даже то, что бюджет региона на 2023 год принят с дефицитом в 7,3 млрд рублей. И что в крае не хватает учителей с врачами, а бюджетники регулярно жалуются на низкие зарплаты. Комментарии тут излишни. #Цифрадня от @oreshkins
Глава нищего Забайкалья Александр Осипов захотел пиара по-быстрому, и пообещал выплачивать за каждый подбитый танк Leopard и Abrams от 500 тысяч до 3 млн рублей. Его не остановило даже то, что бюджет региона на 2023 год принят с дефицитом в 7,3 млрд рублей. И что в крае не хватает учителей с врачами, а бюджетники регулярно жалуются на низкие зарплаты. Комментарии тут излишни. #Цифрадня от @oreshkins
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. 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.” 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. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." 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.
from jp
