Президент Татарстана Рустам Минниханов за счет налогоплательщиков летает бизнес-джетом Falcon 8X, стоимостью 3 млрд рублей, к арабским шейхам и на Мальдивские острова. «Казанского хана» сопровождает молодая любовницаТалия Минуллина - глава Агентства инвестиционного развития. На отдыхе парочка останавливается в гостиничных номерах стоимостью от 9500$ за ночь. Почасовое использование Falcon’a стоит от 150 до 200 тысяч рублей, а в год расходы составляют около 175 миллионов рублей.
Президент Татарстана Рустам Минниханов за счет налогоплательщиков летает бизнес-джетом Falcon 8X, стоимостью 3 млрд рублей, к арабским шейхам и на Мальдивские острова. «Казанского хана» сопровождает молодая любовницаТалия Минуллина - глава Агентства инвестиционного развития. На отдыхе парочка останавливается в гостиничных номерах стоимостью от 9500$ за ночь. Почасовое использование Falcon’a стоит от 150 до 200 тысяч рублей, а в год расходы составляют около 175 миллионов рублей.
"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. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. 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. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists."
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