News archive on the topic "Durov"

Last night something unprecedented happened. Telegram was blocked by the official bot of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The same bot that collected data from informants about the location of Russian troops and equipment. Similar SBU bots were also blocked. In addition, bots alerted about drone attacks. “This happened in contradiction to the rules and public statements that Telegram management publicly declared,” Budanov complained. Hastening...

The creator of VKontakte and Telegram, Russian-Dubai billionaire Pavel Durov carved out an hour of his expensive time for a conversation with the popular American right-wing conservative journalist Tucker Carlson. The key question of goal setting in this case has several possible answers, the main one of which boils down to the fact that Durov’s current product - the Telegram social network - has reached the ceiling of its growth, and therefore...

Apple has blocked Belarusian channels on its devices in the Telegram messenger - Ya/We Omon, Shkvarka News, Pridybaylo, Lebedeva, Azarenok, Lyudazhor. The reason is an alleged violation of application placement rules. The company did not provide more detailed explanations. But the Telegram team explained the situation. “We have received a repeated complaint from Apple representatives that your channel violates the App Store rules.…

Some Russian Telegram channels have stopped working in Ukraine. In particular, this applies to political channels covering Russia’s special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Among them are the channels “Rybar” and “Beregini”. When you try to go to these channels or view their publications, the messenger displays the message “This channel can’t be displayed because it violated local laws” (“This channel cannot…

Yesterday's situation with the massive outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp showed that Russia needs to develop its product. German Klimenko, former adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, head of the Council of the Digital Economy Development Fund, stated this in an interview with the YouTube channel “Soloviev.live,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A problem has arisen that I would call Durov’s benefit performance. When Pavel is localized and only deals with...

The owner of the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, dealt a treacherous blow to the Navalists, who at one time actively supported him in the conflict with Roskomnadzor. On Saturday, the second day of voting in the State Duma elections, he announced the blocking of the “smart voting” (UV) bot, an idea of ​​the criminal blogger Alexei Navalny, the goal of which is to minimize the passage of United Russia candidates into the Russian parliament.…

The Investigative Committee of Belarus sent a letter to the owner of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov with a call to block channels in which the Belarusian opposition publishes personal data of citizens (mainly security forces) and calls for physical violence against them. The first pages of the letter are posted on the official website of the Investigative Committee of Belarus, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Due to the fact that “the terms of use expressly prohibit public solicitations...

The owner of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov is making excuses for not deleting the channel of Ilnaz Galyaviev, who carried out a mass shooting in a Kazan gymnasium. “The shooter in Kazan mentioned his plans in a Telegram channel created for this just 20 minutes before the terrorist attack. At the time of the terrorist attack, there was exactly one participant in the channel - its creator himself. For 15...

If the Telegram messenger had informed the Russian special services about the message of Ilnaz Galyaviev, who carried out a shooting at one of the schools in Kazan today, then this tragedy could have been avoided. RT journalist Konstantin Pridybaylo writes about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The terrorist published a post with a desire to kill people in Kazan at 8.57. The first reports of the shooting appeared...

I am critical and cold towards social networks and instant messengers. Sometimes even with disgust. For there is more evil from them than good. But this does not mean that it is necessary to destroy and block all social networks - and leave society without the slightest glimmer of freedom (even if smart people understand that this is a myth in its purest form). And, forgive me, completely...

The owner of the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, did not block three channels of the Belarusian Maidan activists, on which the personal data of law enforcement officers and other citizens whom the opposition considers “accomplices of the regime” are illegally published. Durov wrote about this in his telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, Apple, which demanded the closure of the channels, used “cunning language” that ignored the fact that “the channels...

Apple Corporation demanded that the owner of the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, close three Belarusian channels that publish personal data of law enforcement officers in Belarus. Durov himself announced this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Durov, Apple expressed concern about the publications as they provoke violence. The founder of Telegram reports that he would have ignored this appeal, but...

At the end of June, at the height of the Covid crisis, a pre-election rally of the current US President Donald Trump took place in the American city of Tulsa (Oklahoma). Much to the chagrin of Donnie and the organizers of the rally, there was no extra crowd - the event brought together very few supporters of the businessman president, despite high expectations. As The New York Times reported, the turnout at the election rally was disrupted by teenagers...

The State Duma is planning a round table with the participation of the creator of VKontakte and Telegram, Pavel Durov, to discuss opposition to the American companies Google and Apple, which levy a 30% tax on the sales of mobile applications, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We know that now Telegram, within the framework of the current legislation, freely operates on the territory of the Russian Federation, we are happy about this,” said the press secretary of the Russian President...