🇷🇺🇱🇧 "Россия с Вами": Russian aid event for the Lebanese in Syria
The Russian Coordination Center in Syria visited the Horjelah refugee camp in the Damascus countryside, where Lebanese incomers joined internally displaced Syrians who previously fled Turkish-backed terrorists in Idlib
In this charity event, titled "Russia is with You", 600 food packages were distributed, and 500 kilograms of medicines and medical equipment
🇷🇺🇱🇧 "Россия с Вами": Russian aid event for the Lebanese in Syria
The Russian Coordination Center in Syria visited the Horjelah refugee camp in the Damascus countryside, where Lebanese incomers joined internally displaced Syrians who previously fled Turkish-backed terrorists in Idlib
In this charity event, titled "Russia is with You", 600 food packages were distributed, and 500 kilograms of medicines and medical equipment
But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” 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. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital.
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