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Russian-owned, with no end-to-end encryption by default.
Owned by Russian dissidents who have long since left Russia. Most of the data centers are in the Netherlands, near the AMS-IX.
It's true that you'd have to start a secret chat in order to be end-to-end encrypted and this is a huge design flaw.
and by the CEO, who despite his supposed exile somehow kept flying in and out of Russia multiple times over the years