He was in Russia when he was being sued by the FSB and on the day the Kremlin publicly dropped its claims against Telegram Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, entered Russia more than 50 times between 2015 and 2021, Important Stories found out. We tracked Durov's movements by analyzing data from the FSB's largest leak, the Kordon Border Guard database. The base appeared online no later than August 20, and on August 26, investigative journalist Andrei Zakharov spoke publicly about it.

Andrei Pivovarova, the former director of the Open Russia organization, was imprisoned nine months before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine-at the end of May 2021 he was removed from the flight Petersburg-Warsaw and sent to a pre-trial detention center. He was released on August 1 this year as a result of the most large -scale exchange of political and spies between Russia and the West. Now Pivovarov, like other exchanged ones, is adapted in a new reality.

Kyiv continues to negotiate with the US on using American long-range weapons for strikes deep into Russia Ukraine has successfully tested a ballistic missile of its own production. The Ukrainian president announced this at a press conference in Kyiv. "I thought it was too early to talk about it, but I wanted there to be a public assessment of this - namely our people who work 24/7 at defense enterprises. There was a test, a positive one, of the first Ukrainian ballistic missile.

Ukraine will not extend the agreement on gas transit from Russia to Europe, Volodymyr Zelensky said at a press conference. His words are quoted by the Ukrainian publication Hromadske. "Nobody will extend the agreement with Russia. That's it. As for gas transit from other companies, if some of our European colleagues continue to request it, we will consider their requests. I don't know what the old man in Azerbaijan was talking about. I'm not sure it was about gas.

We'll find out what official charges will be brought against him by Wednesday, August 28 On Saturday evening, August 24, Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was detained near Paris for refusing to cooperate with the French police. The press, citing sources, lists the charges: Durov does not want to moderate chat rooms and groups where scammers, drugs, porn with children, and terrorist propaganda are rampant, which means he is an accomplice.

He was in Russia and when the FSB was suing him, and on the very day when the Kremlin publicly abandoned claims to Telegram The founder and general director of Telegram, Pavel Durov, entered Russia more than 50 times from 2015 to 2021, found out “important stories”. We were able to track Durov’s movements by analyzing the data from the largest FSB leakage - the Border Service of the Cordon.