... expelled from the party as early as today at a faction meeting. After his statements that Telegram would not work in #Russia even with a VPN, he claimed that it would work with the FSB's VPN, and yesterday he announced that there would be no blocking of Telegram on April 1st. Russians don't take him seriously and say that he's just talking nonsense to increase the number of mentions about him in the media. Svintsov himself actively runs a Telegram channel and an Instagram* account (banned...