It's owned by Alisher Usmanov (Putin's oligarch friend), all their other products (VK, Odnoklassniki) send all the data straight to the russian secret services,

It's owned by Alisher Usmanov (Putin's oligarch friend), all their other products (VK, Odnoklassniki) send all the data straight to the russian secret services, of course there isn't and won't ever be any encryption