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.
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. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. "Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. 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.
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