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It’s become a replacement for independent media which have been squeezed out of the public space,
Lev Gershenzon, the Russian founder of news aggregator The True Story, told POLITICO In Russia, Telegram is a safe haven [from] the government’s fight against civil society,
Russian opposition politician Maxim Katz said in a livestream Monday Our right to privacy is more important than the fear of terrorism,
Durov said in 2016, defending Apple’s right to resist FBI access to the encrypted iPhone of a man involved in a mass shooting So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Under pressure, Durov sold his shares in the company and fled Russia in 2014, announcing his departure with a picture of dolphins and a line from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy It is in no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to rule on the matter,
he wrote in a highly unusual comment on a legal case Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act -- its moderation is within industry standards,
Liberte Liberte! Liberte?" (Freedom Freedom! Freedom?).
Elon Musk, who leads the Tesla car group and X, formerly Twitter, posted the hashtag #FreePavel on his platform and commented in French Perhaps he had a feeling of impunity,
said a source close to the case, asking not to be named I started a company that became what they call the Facebook of Russia,
Durov told US-based journalist Tucker Carlson in April 2024. To this day, we have many relatives who live in Ukraine. Therefore, this tragic conflict is personal for me as well as for Telegram,
Now I plan to open-source my DNA so that my biological children can find each other more easily,
he said in a Telegram post Yulia Vavilova and Pavel Durov did not particularly hide their relationship, nor the fact that after a tour of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan they planned to visit France.
Telegram channel VChK-OGPU - with links to the Russian security services said We don't know exactly what Durov is accused of, we haven't received any official statements yet
He thought his biggest problems were in Russia and left … he wanted to be a brilliant ‘citizen of the world’, living well without a homeland.”
Separately, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday wrote on his Telegram channel The talk was that he was there wanting to lobby Putin in order to prevent having Telegram blocked or turned off inside Russia,
We are hoping to become profitable next year, if not this year,
Durov told the Financial Times in March It’s 2030 in Europe and you are being executed for liking a meme,
The main reason why we started to monetise is because we wanted to remain independent,
For me everything in my life was about becoming free,
he told Carlson, ... saying Telegram I don't have any business in Russia and have no plans to return there
He was quoted by TechCrunch in 2014 as saying