The Standard Group Plc is a
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print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The
Standard Group is recognized as a leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key
influence in matters of national and international interest.
Yayteslav Trahov, a foreign national widely labelled online as “the Russian guy behind viral videos.
For a while, Kenya’s social media timelines morphed into a national amphitheatre of shock, speculation, and moral debate.
Screens filled with whispered allegations, blurred clips, memes, and heated commentary, all orbiting around a foreign national widely labelled online as “the Russian guy spread like wildfire.”
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