- Много чего, конечно. Есть такие вещи, которые для меня просто святые. Я не устаю повторять, что для меня очень важны две вещи: если тебя обижали, ты мог постучаться в дверь, закричать: "Помогите, убивают!" — и весь подъезд выскакивал защищать. Такое единство было при советской власти, я сам подобный случай наблюдал. Во-вторых, я лично теперь не знаю, ради чего живу. Если раньше была идея, было стремление к подвигу, то теперь абсолютная пустота в сознании и душе. Никаких стремлений нет. Маячит зато очень отчетливо страх смерти. Была идея, страха не было.
- Много чего, конечно. Есть такие вещи, которые для меня просто святые. Я не устаю повторять, что для меня очень важны две вещи: если тебя обижали, ты мог постучаться в дверь, закричать: "Помогите, убивают!" — и весь подъезд выскакивал защищать. Такое единство было при советской власти, я сам подобный случай наблюдал. Во-вторых, я лично теперь не знаю, ради чего живу. Если раньше была идея, было стремление к подвигу, то теперь абсолютная пустота в сознании и душе. Никаких стремлений нет. Маячит зато очень отчетливо страх смерти. Была идея, страха не было.
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. 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. DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. 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.
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