Yuri Mikheev, from the Moscow suburb of Lobnya, is the youngest beneficiary of Solidarity zone. On 10 November 2023, 18-year-old Yuri and his friend were detained on the grounds of a military base in the Moscow region. The FSB accused the young men of planning to set fire to military equipment. A case was opened under articles related to “preparation for sabotage”, and Yuri now faces up to 10 years in prison.
You can support Yuri by sending him a letter!
✉️ Address for postal correspondence: Russia, 109382, Москва, ул. Верхние Поля, д. 57, СИЗО-7, Mikheev Yuri Vasilyevich d.o.b. 03.11.2005. Михеев Юрий Васильевич 03.11.2005 г.р.
Yuri Mikheev, from the Moscow suburb of Lobnya, is the youngest beneficiary of Solidarity zone. On 10 November 2023, 18-year-old Yuri and his friend were detained on the grounds of a military base in the Moscow region. The FSB accused the young men of planning to set fire to military equipment. A case was opened under articles related to “preparation for sabotage”, and Yuri now faces up to 10 years in prison.
You can support Yuri by sending him a letter!
✉️ Address for postal correspondence: Russia, 109382, Москва, ул. Верхние Поля, д. 57, СИЗО-7, Mikheev Yuri Vasilyevich d.o.b. 03.11.2005. Михеев Юрий Васильевич 03.11.2005 г.р.
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 last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users.
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