🔵 Watch the first episode of «Russian Ark», a new weekly show broadcast from our studios at SPAS, Russia’s largest Christian TV channel.
How does Orthodoxy respond to the challenges of world secularism and dehumanization? How and why foreigners today are increasingly choosing Russia as their home and seeing it as the Russian ark. And what is the main treasure of our culture and our faith - a treasure that we ourselves rediscover, and in some parts of the world it is not known at all.
Russian Ark - English-language project of the SPAS TV channel, released online on world and Russian platforms Follow, like, and share to help us grow: Rumble | X | YouTube
🔵 Watch the first episode of «Russian Ark», a new weekly show broadcast from our studios at SPAS, Russia’s largest Christian TV channel.
How does Orthodoxy respond to the challenges of world secularism and dehumanization? How and why foreigners today are increasingly choosing Russia as their home and seeing it as the Russian ark. And what is the main treasure of our culture and our faith - a treasure that we ourselves rediscover, and in some parts of the world it is not known at all.
Russian Ark - English-language project of the SPAS TV channel, released online on world and Russian platforms Follow, like, and share to help us grow: Rumble | X | YouTube
Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe. 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. DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare.
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