Вчера суд в Хабаровске вынес чудовищный приговор 51-летнему таксисту из Комсомольска-на-Амуре — 18 лет заключения. Причём первые 5 из них он должен провести в тюрьме — наиболее суровом виде режима, а оставшийся срок — «всего лишь» в колонии строгого режима. «Преступление», за которое осудили Владимира, — поджог здания Росгвардии — он совершил, протестуя против войны в Украине. В ходе поджога никто не пострадал, но мужчину обвинили в совершении «террористического акта».
Вчера суд в Хабаровске вынес чудовищный приговор 51-летнему таксисту из Комсомольска-на-Амуре — 18 лет заключения. Причём первые 5 из них он должен провести в тюрьме — наиболее суровом виде режима, а оставшийся срок — «всего лишь» в колонии строгого режима. «Преступление», за которое осудили Владимира, — поджог здания Росгвардии — он совершил, протестуя против войны в Украине. В ходе поджога никто не пострадал, но мужчину обвинили в совершении «террористического акта».
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
from ye
