🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. 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. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. These entities are reportedly operating nine Telegram channels with more than five million subscribers to whom they were making recommendations on selected listed scrips. Such recommendations induced the investors to deal in the said scrips, thereby creating artificial volume and price rise. But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war.
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