🚢🛢️ A number of coastal states of the Baltic and North Seas (🇬🇧UK, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇸🇪Sweden, 🇫🇮Finland, 🇵🇱Poland and 🇪🇪Estonia) have agreed on joint measures to combat the Russian shadow fleet. The group will conduct regular inspections of shadow fleet vessels, — Finnish MFA
🚢🛢️ A number of coastal states of the Baltic and North Seas (🇬🇧UK, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇸🇪Sweden, 🇫🇮Finland, 🇵🇱Poland and 🇪🇪Estonia) have agreed on joint measures to combat the Russian shadow fleet. The group will conduct regular inspections of shadow fleet vessels, — Finnish MFA
What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. "There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said. 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. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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