Когда-то здесь жили люди. Много людей. В каждой комнате по семье, а то и по две. Со всего Советского Союза ехали работяги: строители, металлурги, электрики, повара, учителя и инженеры. Ехали за деньгами, за северным стажем. Находились и те, кто ехал за особой северной романтикой, которая всегда была сопряжена с миссией первооткрывателей. Первая школа, первый собственный хлеб, первый огневой никель и первая электролитная медь — это было время первых, время покорителей Мончетундры...
Когда-то здесь жили люди. Много людей. В каждой комнате по семье, а то и по две. Со всего Советского Союза ехали работяги: строители, металлурги, электрики, повара, учителя и инженеры. Ехали за деньгами, за северным стажем. Находились и те, кто ехал за особой северной романтикой, которая всегда была сопряжена с миссией первооткрывателей. Первая школа, первый собственный хлеб, первый огневой никель и первая электролитная медь — это было время первых, время покорителей Мончетундры...
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. 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. Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." 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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