Russian influencers cry as Putin’s Instagram ban goes into effect

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instituting an Instagram ban amid his country’s ongoing war with Ukraine. The ban went into effect Monday, just days after the Kremlin claimed the social media site was causing an “incitement of violence against Russians.”Before having their accounts restricted, popular public figures wept at the news in their final video posts, with one saying it felt like her life “was being taken away” from her. “I am not afraid of admitting that I do not want to lose you,” Russian reality TV star Olga Buzova, 36, told her 23.3 million fans, according to Insider. “I do not know what the future holds,” she further sobbed in the seven-minute video. “I don’t know.

I just shared my life, my work, and my soul. I did not do this all as a job for me — this is a part of my soul. It feels like a big part of my heart and my life is being taken away from me.”A post shared by Ольга Бузова (@buzova86)Elsewhere, an unidentified Russian beauty blogger apparently also wept at the news of the ban, with the footage posted to Twitter by news channel Nexta TV. “To me, it’s all life.

It’s the soul. It’s the one thing with which I wake up, fall asleep. F–king five years in a row,” she purportedly stated in her native Russian.

The brunette was promptly slammed on Twitter, with one critic responding: “Ukrainians are paying with their lives, while Russians thought they don’t need pay anything?”One of the #Russian bloggers cries that in two days her Instagram will stop workingShe does not care at all about the thousands of dead people, including her compatriots.