Российские войска начали уходить из Сирии. На авиабазу Хмеймим прибыли грузовые самолёты для погрузки тяжёлого оборудования. Захватившая власть в Сирии группировка Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам* дала российским военным несколько дней на эвакуацию.
*Организация признана террористической и запрещена в России.@banki_oil
Российские войска начали уходить из Сирии. На авиабазу Хмеймим прибыли грузовые самолёты для погрузки тяжёлого оборудования. Захватившая власть в Сирии группировка Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам* дала российским военным несколько дней на эвакуацию.
*Организация признана террористической и запрещена в России.@banki_oil
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. 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. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences.
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