🇬🇧 Former British MP Jack Lopresti joins Ukraine’s International Legion. The ex-Conservative MP, who lost his seat in 2024, is now in Kyiv, using his military experience to fight Russia. He said joining the Legion was always his plan.
🇬🇧 Former British MP Jack Lopresti joins Ukraine’s International Legion. The ex-Conservative MP, who lost his seat in 2024, is now in Kyiv, using his military experience to fight Russia. He said joining the Legion was always his plan.
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. Friday’s performance was part of a larger shift. For the week, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 2%, 2.9%, and 3.5%, respectively. 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.”
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