Sometimes places need something to call their own. Social networks are one of them, especially in a more controlled state than the US.
Enter the world of Vkontakte and Telegram. Russia's answer to Facebook's push into their internet territory and the historical USSR. Sochi has shown us that few mess with Russia's big business, government, or people, and the current Crimea which luckily came after Sochi has expanded this into military prowess and brevity as well. So for Facebook to sue Russian serial entrepreneurs for creating a lookalike site in Russian- well, now with English beta- that has hundreds of millions of users is difficult to unwise. Something should be done, however, to strengthen the connections between networks and leverage social media as a development tool in the CIS.
Enter the world of Vkontakte and Telegram. Russia's answer to Facebook's push into their internet territory and the historical USSR. Sochi has shown us that few mess with Russia's big business, government, or people, and the current Crimea which luckily came after Sochi has expanded this into military prowess and brevity as well. So for Facebook to sue Russian serial entrepreneurs for creating a lookalike site in Russian- well, now with English beta- that has hundreds of millions of users is difficult to unwise. Something should be done, however, to strengthen the connections between networks and leverage social media as a development tool in the CIS.
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