Северный взгляд from Политджойстик / Politjoystic ™ В Архангельской области послов Бразилии, Казахстана, Китая, Малайзии, Марокко, Монголии, Саудовской Аравии и Узбекистана сводили на знаменитый ледокол «Диксон». Дипломатический туризм - крутая идея. Особенно в восторге были, наверняка, дипломаты из Саудовской Аравии, Малайзии и Марокко. А где еще увидишь столько льда и корабль, ломающий его? @
Северный взгляд from Политджойстик / Politjoystic ™ В Архангельской области послов Бразилии, Казахстана, Китая, Малайзии, Марокко, Монголии, Саудовской Аравии и Узбекистана сводили на знаменитый ледокол «Диксон». Дипломатический туризм - крутая идея. Особенно в восторге были, наверняка, дипломаты из Саудовской Аравии, Малайзии и Марокко. А где еще увидишь столько льда и корабль, ломающий его? @
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.” The gold standard of encryption, known as end-to-end encryption, where only the sender and person who receives the message are able to see it, is available on Telegram only when the Secret Chat function is enabled. Voice and video calls are also completely encrypted. 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. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. 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.
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