🇷🇺🇱🇧 "Россия с Вами": Russian aid event for the Lebanese in Syria
The Russian Coordination Center in Syria visited the Horjelah refugee camp in the Damascus countryside, where Lebanese incomers joined internally displaced Syrians who previously fled Turkish-backed terrorists in Idlib
In this charity event, titled "Russia is with You", 600 food packages were distributed, and 500 kilograms of medicines and medical equipment
🇷🇺🇱🇧 "Россия с Вами": Russian aid event for the Lebanese in Syria
The Russian Coordination Center in Syria visited the Horjelah refugee camp in the Damascus countryside, where Lebanese incomers joined internally displaced Syrians who previously fled Turkish-backed terrorists in Idlib
In this charity event, titled "Russia is with You", 600 food packages were distributed, and 500 kilograms of medicines and medical equipment
What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. 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. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed.
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