Спустя полтора года европейский суд снял санкции и запрет экс-губернатору Севастополя Овсянникову вести бизнес на Кипре, так как он «лишился влияния на российскую политику и перестал подрывать суверенитет и территориальную целостность Украины». Сам Овсянников в своем иске убеждал судей, что «возглавить непризнанный Европой регион его заставил Путин».
Спустя полтора года европейский суд снял санкции и запрет экс-губернатору Севастополя Овсянникову вести бизнес на Кипре, так как он «лишился влияния на российскую политику и перестал подрывать суверенитет и территориальную целостность Украины». Сам Овсянников в своем иске убеждал судей, что «возглавить непризнанный Европой регион его заставил Путин».
Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." 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 account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital.
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