"لكني لا أملك مخالب ذئبٍ ولا أنياب ضبع، لا أملك غير قلبي الذي يلدغه الضمير كلما ارتكبتُ خطيئة، أعرف ثقافة الإنسان أن أُضحك لا أُبكي، أن أقوّي لا أُضعف، أن أهب لا أنهب، أن أعين لا أكسِر، لا أعرف ما يعرفونه من نهشٍ وجرحٍ وأذيةٍ فتلك فعال السباع في الغاب، أنا لا أعرف عدا الإنسانية."
"لكني لا أملك مخالب ذئبٍ ولا أنياب ضبع، لا أملك غير قلبي الذي يلدغه الضمير كلما ارتكبتُ خطيئة، أعرف ثقافة الإنسان أن أُضحك لا أُبكي، أن أقوّي لا أُضعف، أن أهب لا أنهب، أن أعين لا أكسِر، لا أعرف ما يعرفونه من نهشٍ وجرحٍ وأذيةٍ فتلك فعال السباع في الغاب، أنا لا أعرف عدا الإنسانية."
The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. 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. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK.
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