The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced an anti-war activist from Tver to 6 years of imprisonment. According to a court decision, Ivan Kudryashov must spend 2.5 years in prison, and the remaining term in a strict regime colony.
Ivan and his defense claim that the case has been fabricated by FSB. Kudryashov was accused of planning to arson the military registration and enlistment office.
The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced an anti-war activist from Tver to 6 years of imprisonment. According to a court decision, Ivan Kudryashov must spend 2.5 years in prison, and the remaining term in a strict regime colony.
Ivan and his defense claim that the case has been fabricated by FSB. Kudryashov was accused of planning to arson the military registration and enlistment office.
WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. 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.” Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number.
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