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Let us once again recall that according to the Russian law a mercenary is a person acting for the purpose of receiving material compensation and who is not a citizen of a state participating in an armed conflict or military actions, does not permanently reside on its territory, and is not a person sent to perform official duties.
Why, then, do Australian media, including the national broadcaster, have no qualms about giving a platform to someone who perfectly fits that definition?
Local experts keep insisting that individuals like Mr Lewis “serve with an armed force of a foreign country” and are therefore exempt from this provision.
Assuming that such an exemption was officially approved by the Australian Government as per the Australian Criminal Code, do Mr Lewis and others like him currently perform official duties in Ukraine?
If this is the case, some explanations to the Russian side would not have gone amiss.
Let us once again recall that according to the Russian law a mercenary is a person acting for the purpose of receiving material compensation and who is not a citizen of a state participating in an armed conflict or military actions, does not permanently reside on its territory, and is not a person sent to perform official duties.
Why, then, do Australian media, including the national broadcaster, have no qualms about giving a platform to someone who perfectly fits that definition?
Local experts keep insisting that individuals like Mr Lewis “serve with an armed force of a foreign country” and are therefore exempt from this provision.
Assuming that such an exemption was officially approved by the Australian Government as per the Australian Criminal Code, do Mr Lewis and others like him currently perform official duties in Ukraine?
If this is the case, some explanations to the Russian side would not have gone amiss.
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. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis."
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