Forwarded from Тихая обитель ☦️ (монахиня Христина 🪆 nun Hristina)
С Праздником, дорогие братья и сестры, Введения во храм Пресвятой Богородицы!
Да ликует песнописец Давид, и Иоаким с Анною да торжествует, ибо Дитя святое от них произошло – Мария, светоносная божественная Свеча; и ныне радуется Она, входя во храм; и благословил, Её увидев, Варахиин сын и радостно восклицал: «Радуйся, чудо всемирное!»
С Праздником, дорогие братья и сестры, Введения во храм Пресвятой Богородицы!
Да ликует песнописец Давид, и Иоаким с Анною да торжествует, ибо Дитя святое от них произошло – Мария, светоносная божественная Свеча; и ныне радуется Она, входя во храм; и благословил, Её увидев, Варахиин сын и радостно восклицал: «Радуйся, чудо всемирное!»
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. 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." On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives? "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights.
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