"...Я остался один и вдруг, с такой ясностью, какой никогда не испытывал до тех пор, увидел уходившие ввысь колонны Думы, освещенную листву на бульваре, бронзовую голову Пушкина с неярким отблеском луны на ней, увидел в первый раз окружавшее меня таким, каким оно было на самом деле, — затихшим и невыразимо прекрасным..."
"...Я остался один и вдруг, с такой ясностью, какой никогда не испытывал до тех пор, увидел уходившие ввысь колонны Думы, освещенную листву на бульваре, бронзовую голову Пушкина с неярким отблеском луны на ней, увидел в первый раз окружавшее меня таким, каким оно было на самом деле, — затихшим и невыразимо прекрасным..."
"Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." "The result is on this photo: fiery 'greetings' to the invaders," the Security Service of Ukraine wrote alongside a photo showing several military vehicles among plumes of black smoke. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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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