«Сегодня даже по публичным данным правозащитных организаций в России более 1300 политических заключённых. Это больше, чем было во всём Советском Союзе в середине 80-х. И в этом списке как минимум 22 журналиста».
«Сегодня даже по публичным данным правозащитных организаций в России более 1300 политических заключённых. Это больше, чем было во всём Советском Союзе в середине 80-х. И в этом списке как минимум 22 журналиста».
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. 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. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried.
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