«Украинцы в панике. Они не ожидали, что Трамп моментально капитулирует перед Путиным»: Майкл Макфол о переговорах по Украине. Интервью на Дожде
Экс-посол США в России Майкл Макфол дал интервью Екатерине Котрикадзе во время Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности. Он рассказал, почему Трампу нравится Путин и он готов дать ему все, что тот захочет.
«Украинцы в панике. Они не ожидали, что Трамп моментально капитулирует перед Путиным»: Майкл Макфол о переговорах по Украине. Интервью на Дожде
Экс-посол США в России Майкл Макфол дал интервью Екатерине Котрикадзе во время Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности. Он рассказал, почему Трампу нравится Путин и он готов дать ему все, что тот захочет.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. There was another possible development: Reuters also reported that Ukraine said that Belarus could soon join the invasion of Ukraine. However, the AFP, citing a Pentagon official, said the U.S. hasn’t yet seen evidence that Belarusian troops are in Ukraine. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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."
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