Габриеле Кроне-Шмальц, в прошлом московский корреспондент телекомпании ARD, всегда защищала Россию и критиковала позицию Запада. Еще в 2015 г. была опубликована ее книга «Понять Россию. Борьба за Украину и высокомерие Запада», в которой она выступила как защитница России, полностью оправдывая политику Путина как защитную реакцию на действия Запада и критикуя западные СМИ, которые она обвиняла в предвзятости в отношении событий в России и на Украине.
Поэтому надо смотреть, как быстро перестроятся «ястребы».
Габриеле Кроне-Шмальц, в прошлом московский корреспондент телекомпании ARD, всегда защищала Россию и критиковала позицию Запада. Еще в 2015 г. была опубликована ее книга «Понять Россию. Борьба за Украину и высокомерие Запада», в которой она выступила как защитница России, полностью оправдывая политику Путина как защитную реакцию на действия Запада и критикуя западные СМИ, которые она обвиняла в предвзятости в отношении событий в России и на Украине.
Поэтому надо смотреть, как быстро перестроятся «ястребы».
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. 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. 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. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers.
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