«Ведь товарищ Сталин что сказал? Он говорит: ездят у нас в Америку, приезжают и ахают — ах, какие огромные дома! Пусть ездят в Москву, также видят, какие у нас дома, пусть ахают».
Красивый спецпроект ТАСС про сталинские высотки, из которых мне больше других всегда нравилась та, что на Котельнической набережной (даже МГУ на втором месте), единственная, которую мне однажды удалось заценить не только снаружи.
«Ведь товарищ Сталин что сказал? Он говорит: ездят у нас в Америку, приезжают и ахают — ах, какие огромные дома! Пусть ездят в Москву, также видят, какие у нас дома, пусть ахают».
Красивый спецпроект ТАСС про сталинские высотки, из которых мне больше других всегда нравилась та, что на Котельнической набережной (даже МГУ на втором месте), единственная, которую мне однажды удалось заценить не только снаружи.
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. 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. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site.
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